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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Operation Dudula: interference with right to access healthcare
- By Nicole Breen
- . Sep 13, 2025
Operation Dudula, formed in 2021 by Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini, is an interest group turned political party. It contested the 2024 elections but did not win
Ending Violence Against Children: Expectation versus Reality
- By Nicole Breen
- . May 30, 2025
This week is National Child Protection Week. It is an opportunity to look back at the legacy of violence against children in South Africa, and
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