
Nicole Breen
Nicole Breen, an LLM graduate, is a consultant who writes about children, basic education, mental health and refugees and asylum seekers
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Migration and education: quo vadis?
- By Nicole Breen
- . Mar 22, 2025
South Africa is one of the largest refugee receiver states of asylum seekers and refugees on the continent. In terms of section 3 of the

Criminalising bullying not likely to help
- By Nicole Breen
- . Aug 3, 2022
Bullying is a phenomenon commonly found in schools and elsewhere. Under new legislation, certain kinds of bullying could be criminalised. Bullying based on such things

Restorative justice as a tool to combat purported hate speech
- By Nicole Breen
- . Jul 16, 2022
Section 16 of the Constitution entrenches the right to freedom of expression to everyone within the Republic. It includes the caveat that certain types of

Feeding SA’s children: Broken promises and disingenuousness
- By Nicole Breen
- . Aug 1, 2020
Over 9 million children benefit from South Africa’s National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP), a programme adopted in 1994 chiefly as a means to realising poor

Covid-19 measures are killing our children
- By Nicole Breen
- . May 15, 2020
Children are among society’s most vulnerable, which our law attempts to address. Section 28(2) of the Constitution, for example, provides that ‘the best interests of

Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre: Yeats on South Africa during the pandemic?
- By Nicole Breen
- . May 13, 2020
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon

Ease of the lockdown a contentious issue: Quo Vadis?
- By Nicole Breen
- . May 1, 2020
The decision to move South Africa’s lockdown from the restrictive level 5 to the marginally diluted level 4 has been met with a variety of