‘The law is clear’: Sasha Stevenson fights back as vigilantes try to keep migrants out of clinics
Daily Maverick | 24.06.2026 17:38
SECTION27’s offices are on De Korte Street in Braamfontein, a stone’s throw from the University of the Witwatersrand’s main campus and more or less along a line between Constitutional Hill and the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court. During the Fees Must Fall protests in 2016 the Puma store below the office was looted, and a Rea Vaya bus was torched at the intersection with Bertha Street. An apt location, some might say, for an organisation that has, since its establishment in 1993 as the Aids Law Project, vigorously applied itself to the upholding, testing and shaping of citizens’ (and non-citizens’) rights in South Africa.
