This week, Dr. Meghan Finn notes that South Africa’s equality legislation was drafted, deliberately and against sustained resistance, to reach discrimination in the private sphere as well as by the state. She further notes that twenty-six years on, some of its most important provisions for targeting privatised inequality remain dormant. The result is a striking gap between an ambitious statutory scheme as the drafting archive reveals, and its operation.

In this week's post, Prof Franaaz Khan argues that African human rights law should recognise neurodivergence as an equality issue, not merely a disability issue. Drawing on the African Charter, the Mali decision, and South Africa's Western Cape Forum case, the piece contends that the legal tools to protect neurodivergent people already exist. What is needed is a willingness to interpret equality more inclusively and ensure that those whose exclusion has long gone unseen receive meaningful legal protection.

In this week's post, Rangarirai Chikova sets out how sovereign debt crises impact negatively on the capacity of African states to realise economic, social and cultural rights. In doing, he proposes reforms such as as a UN Framework Convention on Debt as a potential pathway for change.

In this week's post, Tashinga Ruwa Lauryn Magaya examines Zimbabwe's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026–2030, arguing that while the Strategy provides an important policy framework, it is not a substitute for binding legislation. The article explores the legal and institutional gaps that remain, compares Zimbabwe's approach with the European Union's AI regulatory journey, and contends that the Strategy's long-term success will depend on enforceable laws, effective institutions, accountability, and sustained implementation.