Exploring the content and the nature of the right to basic sanitation - Foundation Office South Africa
Seminar
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