{"id":32896,"date":"2026-04-24T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32896"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:25:49","slug":"africa-judiciary-backs-landmark-declaration","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/africa-judiciary-backs-landmark-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa judiciary backs landmark declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_p1\">The Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa and the South African (SA) Judiciary have adopted the Johannesburg Declaration, a landmark\u2019s pledge aimed at transforming justice systems across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The declaration was unveiled at the Second High-Level Meeting of Women Judicial Leaders of Africa who gathered in Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">After three days of deliberations, African judicial leaders have put their signatures to the Johannesburg Declaration, a document\u00a0SA\u2019s\u00a0Chief Justice Mandisa Maya calls &#8220;a blueprint for an inclusive and independent judiciary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The declaration sets four key resolutions that Maya says, are shared values across the continent&#8217;s judiciary, gender parity, a Gender Based Violence framework, judicial independence, and economic justice, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32896","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"African judiciary","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32897,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32896\/revisions\/32897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}