Intlabathi reads legislation, regulations, gazette notices and judgments, and explains in plain language what has changed and who it affects. Every piece is written to be read once and understood, not tracked.

Cape Town's hottest homes are also where its newest babies are born

Indoor heat in Khayelitsha already breaches safe thresholds four days in ten. The law was supposed to fix this in 2013. It hasn't.

Farmers, foresters and miners are about to lose a water right that never needed a licence

A commercial farmer irrigating from a river today may be doing so under a right that has never once been tested against a licence application.

#CancelCoal is back in court on 19 August.

The state is appealing a coal plan it no longer has.

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We do not litigate or organise. We close the distance between expert knowledge and public understanding, because that distance is itself a justice problem. Read more about why this project exists on the Roots page.