Pierneef Theatre retracts its Press Statement made during October 2020, regarding the cancellation of the Children’s Theatre production by the Drizzles Production House, unconditionally and in its totality.  Click here to read the full apology

29 September 2021

Attention Editors and Reporters

The mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) is, among others, to promote respect for human rights and a culture of human rights and includes powers to carry out research and to educate.
In line with this constitutional imperative, the SAHRC will host regular, monthly media briefings and use these media briefings as an opportunity to proactively keep all within South Africa abreast of developments in the work of the Commission as well as report on progress made on important matters. The Commission also sees this as an opportunity to highlight work it is doing that may ordinarily receive little media and public attention.

24 September 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is investigating two hospitals in Mpumalanga for alleged lack of medical services and another for water shortages.

23 September 2021

A researcher says implementing the centuries-old values of Ubuntu into the mental healthcare system can humanise the mental healthcare system.

Statistics surrounding the mental healthcare landscape in South Africa were concerning as they suggested the state of mental health in the country appeared to have worsened, according to Dr Fikile Mnisi.

22 September 2021

DURBAN – THE South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has announced that it will be holding a three-week National Investigative Hearing into the July 2021 this year, starting from November.

Date: 28 September 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office (LPO) will be conducting a three-day training for human rights champions in the province from the 28^th to 30^th of September 2021.

27 September 2021

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

On 27 September 2021 to 1 October 2021, the North West Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (“the SAHRC”) will conduct site inspections in various villages and towns in order to investigate allegations of human rights violations by various municipalities. The site inspections are necessitated by hundreds of complaints lodged with the SAHRC relating to allegations of poor service delivery, particularly lack of access to sufficient water, poor water quality, poor sewerage system, lack of access to basic sanitation and poor domestic waste removal.

24 September 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission) welcomes and supports the decision of the Constitutional Court pertaining to section 29(2) of the Constitution in Chairperson of the Council of the University of South Africa v Afriforum. This case concerned a decision by UNISA to discontinue Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning, and had previously been heard in the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

22 September 2021

Over the years, the Commission has received and investigated service delivery complaints against various local municipalities in Mpumalanga. The issues raised in the various complaints included the failure by municipalities to provide water and housing, sewage spillages, sewage treatment challenges, electricity outages, non-collection of refuse and potholes on the roads.

2 September 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has expressed its displeasure over what it has described as the undrinkable water in Hammanskraal.