28 September 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (“Commission”) Gauteng Provincial Office will host a follow-up stakeholder engagement on the plight of homeless community in Mogale City. In the recent past, the Mogale City Municipality’s Public Safety unit has been accused of serious human rights violations and heavy-handed treatment of homeless people.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
28 September 2022

Learners with severe to profound intellectual disabilities (“LSPID”) have a need to access quality, publicly funded education and support. This is provided for in the (“LSPID”) conditional grant. The purpose of the LSPID conditional grant is to provide the necessary support, resources and equipment to identified special care centres and schools for the provision of education to children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities.

Date: 28 September 2022 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Free State Provincial Office has received several complaints including amongst others the illegal farm evictions of occupants protected by ESTA and the pounding of livestock by farm owners. 

10 September 2022

By Ntombenhle Ngwane

National Heritage Day, celebrated in South Africa every year on September 24, is one of the holidays that encourage citizens to unite while celebrating their diversities. In 2005, a media campaign sought the rebranding of the National Heritage Day to be known as “The National Braai Day”, and later “Braai4Heritage”.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

27 September 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) will conduct a newsroom visit to provide an opportunity for media houses to interact with the North West Provincial Office (NWPO) and for the NWPO to share information on the work of the Commission.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
27 September 2022

The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities with the view to heightening awareness about human rights and institutions that can help with redress for human rights violations, with a specific focus on the role of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.

26 September 2022 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is a Constitutional body, established to support constitutional democracy in terms of Section 181 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Constitution). Section 184(1) (b) of the Constitution obliges the SAHRC to promote the protection of human rights and monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic of South Africa.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

26 September 2022

The Eastern Cape provincial office will conduct a human rights champion workshop on Monday, 26 September 2022. The identified human rights champions will be empowered on the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission and how to be champions for human rights.

By Fatima Chohan

24 September 2022

At a recent seminar held by the South African Human Rights Commission on the topic of “The Erosion of Rule of Law”, the notion of a South African nation was disputed by the presenter who argued that we are not now, nor have we ever been, anything akin to a nation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

26 September 2022
Over the years, the South African Human Rights Commission in Mpumalanga (“the Commission”) has received and investigated complaints relating to the placement and removal of markers on holders’ identity documents.