12 October 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tomorrow the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) will conduct an inspection of the Bronkhorstspruit Water Treatment Plant in the City of Tshwane. This follows the decision by the City of Tshwane to temporarily shut down the plant due to the poor quality of water that is being processed at the plant.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

11 OCTOBER 2021

The Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will host a stakeholder engagement on children’s rights following rising numbers of learner pregnancy amid Covid-19 as well as enquiries relating to allegations of sexual violations of learners by educators within the province.

30 September 2021

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentle of the media. As you may know the mandate of the Human Rights Commission is the broadest of the human rights mandates of all Chapter Nine institutions established by the Constitution. In terms of its constitutional mandate the Commission is thus responsible for the protection, promotion and monitoring of the observance of all the rights as outlined in  Chapter 2 of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, within South Africa.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
06 October 2021

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the South Africa Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at formalising partnership between the two entities in the promotion and protection of the human rights of asylum-seekers, refugees, internally displaced people and stateless persons in South Africa.

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06 October 2021

In July 2020 the SAHRC received a complaint from a member of the public relating to the social media account known as “Tracy Zille”. It appeared from the account that a white woman was making disparaging, racist and harassing comments towards black women in particular.

05 October 2021

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The 2021-2022 financial year marks the second year that the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission or SAHRC) participates in organising and hosting the National Schools Moot Court Competition (NSMCC). 

04 October 2021

On 30 September 2021, the President announced that the country would move to risk level 1 and added that the Department of Health will soon be rolling out a vaccination certificate that can be used to facilitate travel and other forms of activity that require proof of vaccination status. Sometime earlier the Minister of Health had stated that the Department is looking at vaccination mandates.

30 September 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission), held its first media briefing today, the 30th September 2021.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

29 September 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission will be conducting a human rights champion workshop on 30 September 2021. The identified human rights champions will be empowered on the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission.

29 September 2021

Attention Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) has put six (6) Provincial MEC’s for Education on terms concerning water and sanitation deficiencies at schools in their provinces.  These are the MECs for Education of KwaZulu Natal, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Free State and the Eastern Cape.