10 August 2021

By Allan Tumbo

The government has the task of eradicating GBV in SA and restructuring a historically unequal economy that marginalises women and youth, while preparing for a future that may bring further inequalities. Yet the government alone cannot accomplish this task.

13 August 2021
ATT: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission), is disappointed to see a xenophobic video, circulating on social media, of a person stating that non-nationals (“foreigners”) will not be allowed to open and / or run their “spaza” shop businesses in Soweto.

01 August 2021

Qwelane penned an article in the Sunday Sun newspaper in 2008 titled: 'Call Me Names – But Gay Is Not Ok'.

JOHANNESBURG - The Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that an article by journalist Jon Qwelane was tantamount to hate speech and that a provision in Constitution with the word hurtful needed to be adjusted.

03 Aug 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is looking into more than 30 complaints from employees claiming to have been threatened with dismissal over their vaccine hesitancy.

04 August 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission will be instituting hearings into the recent unrest that swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, with proceedings expected to commence within the next three weeks.

07 August 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will launch an investigation into the violence that swept across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July.

7 August 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is set to launch a National Investigative hearing into the July civil unrest.

10 August 2021

On this day 65 years ago more than 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in protest the unjust the pass laws.

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said the Constitution’s promise of dignity and equality for all remains an aspiration for women in this country.

12 August 2021

The SAHRC has received queries from staff mostly in the corporate sector asking whether their employer has the right to let them go if they refuse to get the COVID inoculation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 9 August 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) joins the rest of South African society in remembering and honouring women’s struggles on this 65th anniversary of the Women’s March to the Union Buildings in 1956. We pay tribute to the collective spirit of the heroines of the women’s movement who, in their diversity, united in solidarity and were prepared to pay the ultimate price in the quest for substantive gender equality.  This year’s National Women’s Day is of special significance as it is the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of struggle stalwart and human rights pioneer, Charlotte Maxeke. It is also the 25th anniversary of the country’s Constitution, whose very recognition of women’s rights as human rights is a manifestation of the gains of women’s historical claims and demands for equality.