23 June 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission, Gauteng Provincial Office will be hosting a virtual Stakeholder Engagement on Mob Justice. The Commission has noted the increasing number of reports detailing the prevalence of mob justice in Gauteng, specifically in the Zandspruit area. Mob justice violates the rights and freedoms enshrined in the South African Constitution, as well as the United Nations Standards of Human Rights.

21 June 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) will host its second National Conference on Racism on Tuesday, 22 June 2021. The conference will be convened under the theme “Towards Social Cohesion, Non-racialism, and the Eradication of Racial Polarisation and Tension”.  Key topical issues such as the state of inequality and the continued legacy of segregation will be discussed.

21 June 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission or the SAHRC”) was recently invited to a community meeting to address random xenophobic attacks that were meted out to foreign shop owners in the Louisvale Road communiy situated in the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, Upington.

SAHRC vs Msunduzi Municipality judgement

18 June 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) will hold a media briefing on Monday 21 June 2021. The purpose of the briefing will be to discuss the 2nd National Conference on Racism to be convened by the SAHRC on the 22nd of June 2021.

18 June 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

On Monday, 21 June 2021, the South African Human Rights Commission (“The Commission”) will conduct a site inspection of the Ekurhuleni School for the Deaf in Katlehong. The Commission has initiated an investigation following recent protests at the school over lack of nutritional meals for learners living with disability, lack of hot water and overcrowding at the school.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tuesday, 16 June 2021

The application brought by the South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission or the SAHRC”) in the Pietermaritzburg High Court against the Msunduzi Municipality (First Respondent) for the management, deterioration and poor state of the New England Road Landfill Site (“the Landfill Site”) was heard and finalised on 28 May 2021 before the Honourable Judge R Seegobin.

By Gushwell Brooks on 13 June 2021

“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.” These words echoed throughout the world on 10 May 1994 when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratically elected president; an election in which all citizens, 18 years and older, despite race, ethnicity, gender or any other discriminating factor, could participate.

16 June 2021
ATT: Editors and Reporters

Today, the 16th of June, in addition to it being Youth Day, it is also the Day of the African Child. It is a sign of global recognition of the role that children played in Soweto in 1976 in changing the course of South Africa’s history at great cost to many of our children. Therefore, this day has been marked annually by the African Union as the Day of the African Child so as to remind us that children are at the center of our society and that children’s rights are human rights.

Thursday, 10 June 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) has received numerous complaints from the public alleging that a group of LGBTI and GNC learners at the DF Malan High School were on 7 June 2021 subjected to homophobic discrimination and hate speech by fellow learners and staff of the school.