Southern Africa Litigation Centre

The primary objective of SALC is to promote and advance human rights, democratic governance, the rule of law, and access to justice in Southern Africa.

The organisation operates in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) provides support to community-based organizations by offering legal assistance[1] and organizational capacity strengthening.

The organisation supported litigation to review the anti-terrorism laws in Eswatini, where the High Court ruled that some provisions are not constitutional[7] as they infringe on the right to freedom of expression.

[8] The court victory granted equal rights to sue or be sued, contract, and administer property to all Swazi women married under the civil system.

The organisation celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in New York, where with a panel discussion highlighting the impact of criminalisation in Africa.

[10] The organisation currently works under a Global Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, where it highlights the abuse of power which has a profound human rights cost, manifesting in discrimination, use of lethal force, torture, excessive imprisonment and inhumane conditions of detention.