Nicole Breen
Nicole Breen is an LLM graduate and freelance writer specialising in human rights and current affairs matters. She has previously worked for the Human Sciences Research Council, South African Human Rights Commission and a variety of non-governmental organisations.
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Criminalising bullying not likely to help
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
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
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
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?
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?
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