Overview
- An interim order directs national, provincial and municipal health authorities and the police to take all reasonable measures to ensure unhindered access to public health facilities for everyone.
- The court requires adequate security at clinic entrances, mandatory reporting of incidents to police, and written compliance reports within 10 court days.
- Judge Stuart Wilson condemned the ineffective state response, called xenophobia a grave threat to rights, and told police to wrest control of clinics from vigilantes or show they cannot.
- The South African Police Service told the court it has issued a national instruction to activate resources and coordinate plans to counter the blockades.
- The urgent case was brought by Treatment Action Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia after months of Operation Dudula pickets that checked IDs and barred non‑South Africans despite a prior November order.