Details

08h30 Tea and registration

09h00 Welcome: SAIFAC Director David Bilchitz

Session 1:

The Right to Basic Sanitation as a Human Right: International Law and Local Perspectives

09h15 – 09h35 The Human Rights Commission’s work on the Right to Basic Sanitation, Preggs Govender

09h35 – 10h10 International law and the right to basic sanitation, Siyambonga Heleba

10h20 – 10h40 Discussion

10h40 Tea

Session 2:

Local Government, Service Delivery and Sanitation Solutions

11h00 – 11h25 Improving sanitation in informal settlements: Moving from conceptualisation implementation (Technical Perspectives), Pieter Crous

11h25 – 11h50 The contradictory role of interim basic services within the struggle for a right to the City, Marie Huchzermeyer

11h50 – 12h15 Local government obligations to deliver basic services,

Annette May

12h15 – 12h45 Discussion

Session 3: The Right to Sanitation thus far in South African courts and legislation

13h45 – 14h10 The status of the right to sanitation in SA, and it's intrinsic relationship to other constitutional rights (provisional),

Kate Tissington

14h10 – 14h35 Can Open Toilets be a way of providing sanitation? The Makhaza open toilets case: Lessons learnt and the way forward, Gavin Silber

14h35 – 15h00 The Nokotyana case: the Constitutional Court’s refusal to engage with the right to basic sanitation, David Bilchitz and Redson Kapindu

15h00 – 15h30 Discussion

15h30 Closing remarks/summary Redson Kapindu

15h40 Close of Proceedings