Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 November 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng Provincial Office (GPO) together with The Forge and Changing the Lense will host a LGBTQ+ Symposium under the theme of the Black Queer intellectual archives and the presentation and performance of Queerness in the media.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 November 2022

The KwaZulu Natal Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is conducting stakeholder engagements, community human rights champions workshop, media engagements / newsroom visit as well as monitoring activities in the different district of KwaZulu Natal Province from the 14 November 2022 to 30 November 2022.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 November 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng provincial Office (GPO) today visits Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloorus.

Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital is a level 1 and 2 regional facility. This means that it deals with referrals from clinics, Community Healthcare Centres and District Hospitals in the area. The hospital opened its doors in 2014 and was previously located in Katlehong but due to the dolomitic conditions in Katlehong, a safer site was identified in Vosloorus.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

16 November 2022

The Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will be conducting a human rights capacity building workshop for Women in Traditional Leadership (Emakhosikati) as strategic stakeholders on the Impact of Migration and Equality on Children. Migration has a huge impact on children in that the enactment, implementation and any non-compliance with the migration laws affect migrant children as it does to their parents.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
16 November 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) has issued a final investigative report in the matter of Senna on behalf of the Residents of Palamakuwa, Extension 5 Lehurutse Zeerust // Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality and Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality. The report relates to the complaint received on 9 June 2020 regarding the lack of basic municipal services such as water, sanitation, electricity and roads in Palamakuwa outside Zeerust. It was further alleged that there had been no human settlement development in Palamakuwa since 2010.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
16 November 2022

On 17 November 2022, the North West Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will conduct a provincial human rights dialogue themed “Enhancing the promotion and protection for Children’s rights to Education, Equality and respect for their language, culture and religion”.

14 November 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

South Africa is one of the 156 States that recognises the right to a clean, safe, and healthy environment as envisaged in section 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution). A safe, clean, and healthy environment is integral to the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water, and sanitation.  Without a healthy environment, we are unable to fulfil our aspirations or even live at a level commensurate with minimum standards of human dignity.  

Attention: Editors and Reporters

14 November 2022

The Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will be conducting workshops to popularise and raise awareness about the Constitutional Court judgement which declared Section 10 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 invalid and inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (“the Constitution”) the extent that it prohibits an unmarried father from giving notice of the birth of his child under his surname, the absence of the child’s mother or without consent.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
14 November 2022

The purpose of this statement is to correct certain misapprehensions held and widely expressed by the EFF and Mr Malema, as well as in some media reports/articles, about the steps that the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) has taken to date in respect of this matter and to provide a very brief explanation of the Commission’s discretionary powers in receiving complaints of human rights infringements more generally.

14 November 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters

In a “REPORT INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES SORROUNDING THE DEATHS OF MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS: GAUTENG PROVINCE”, the Health Ombuds recommended that the Minister of Health should request the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) to undertake a systematic and systemic review of human rights compliance and possible violations nationally related to mental health.