04 Feb 2024

After its inquiry into the July 2021 riots, the SA Human Rights Commission says it can't link them to the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma, and doesn't know who the chief instigators were. Chris Barron asked commissioner PHILILE NTULI ... Your inquiry found the riots were orchestrated by wellresourced "primary actors". How can you not know who they were? Within the scope of the submissions we received we found quite valuable information we were able to unpack ... Shouldn't finding out who the primary actors were have been one of your most urgent priorities? Of course, it was.

26 Feb 2024

"I asked them to call my parents but again they ignored me. They put us in the cells where we found other detainees." The girl said she used one of her fellow detainees' cellphone to call her parents, whose phones went to voicemail. She eventually reached her sister, who alerted their father. "I was scared, tired, worried and anxious. I just wanted to go home. Every time I see a police van I wonder whether they will arrest me again." The teenager's father said on arrival at the police station no one could tell him why his daughter was locked up.

24 Feb 2024

THE decision to discontinue Cape Town City's DialaRide service to Atlantis from March 18, will affect commuters with disability who rely heavily on the service. Among those who are unhappy are two regular customers with disability, and a couple who complained of discrimination because their threeyearold daughter could not accompany them as she was a minor in terms of the service's rigid registration policy. The City's Mayco member for urban mobility, Rob Quintas, said budget cuts and an oversubscribed service had led to a review of the service which had high cancellations, and passengers who lived close to MyCiTi bus stops. He said the annual budget was R28.1 million with an additional R5m for the 2023 24 financial year.

20 Feb 2024

THE SA Human Rights Commission SAHRC in KwaZuluNatal has called a meeting with water experts to help address ongoing water supply issues in Durban in violation of residents' right to water. Provincial SAHRC manager Pavershree Padayachee said the commission has since January undertaken various initiatives, such as convening meetings with affected communities; participating in war room meetings; and liaising with various government actors across the three spheres of government.

16 Feb 2024

ETHEKWINI residents affected by ongoing water outages, especially in Verulam, oThongathi, Phoenix and other surrounding areas, have called for the South African Human Rights Commission SAHRC to launch an investigation into the violation of their constitutional rights.

26 Feb 2024

Khazimla Adam aspires to be an ambassador for the UN International Children's Emergency Fund. She was recently elected as Nelson Mandela Bay junior city mayor Simtembile Mgidi Slowing down is simply not an option for Woodridge College head girl Khazimla Adam, with her CV recently receiving another impressive addition. From being elected as the Nelson Mandela Bay junior city mayor to becoming the national youth parliament speaker, Adam is now the newly elected SA Human Rights Commission SAHRC children's rights ambassador for the Eastern Cape.

21 Feb 2024

Rights group investigates after girl 'detained for not carrying ID' The South African Human Rights Commission's SAHRC office in Gauteng has launched an investigation into a complaint about the reported arrest and detention of a minor by police for not carrying an identity document.

06 Feb 2024

Commission forced to subpoena officials from OR Tambo municipality and Transnet to hearing Human rights body wants answers on dire state of roads Ziyanda Zweni The Eastern Cape Human Rights Commission has been forced to subpoena officials from the OR Tambo district municipality and Transnet to an inquiry into the state of the province's roads, after Transnet and municipal officials were noshows at a hearing in November. The representatives were forced to appear before the commission in East London yesterday.

02 February 2024

THE South African Human Rights Commission SAHRC has begun imprinting its SHiNE concept into the hearts and minds of countrymen to help form a more coherent society, in response to the violence and racial tensions between communities in KwaZuluNatal endured during the July 2021 unrest. SHiNE or Social Harmony National Effort is the Commission's project that was conceptualised after an eight month nationwide consultative process headed up by Deputy Commissioner, Fatima Chohan.

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9 MARCH 2024

On the 29^th of February 2024, the Child Rights Unit (CRU) of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) together with the SAHRC Mpumalanga Provincial Office participated in a community stakeholder engagement in Steenbok, Nkomazi to raise awareness on human rights violations associated with Ukuthwala/Funelani Nganeno practice.