Attention: Editors and Reporters

12 May 2022

As part of the 2022 National Schools Moot Court Competition (NSMCC), the SAHRC KZN Provincial Office and the KZN Department of Education are conducting workshops on essay writing. The Workshops have been organised into clusters for mainstream schools and individual workshops for schools admitting learners with disabilities. 

16 April 2022

Human rights activist Rhoda Kadalie, 68, has died after a battle with lung cancer.

Her daughter, Julia Pollak, confirmed the death to News24.

15 April 2022

SAHRC also called for more attention to be given to the impact of climate change

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said the State must ensure that humanitarian aid actually reaches those that need it after the floods in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and is not lost to corruption or maladministration.

4 April 2022

Close to 60 schools across  North West have poor infrastructure, says the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).

Osmond Mngomezulu, the commission’s office manager in the province, said even though it initially received complaints about six schools, its scope was widened when it identified more schools during their assessment.

1 April 2022

R50 billion in damage was caused by the looting and arson attacks and more than 300 people died.

DURBAN - Last July's unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was a plot to sabotage the economy, President Cyril Ramaphosa testified on Friday at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) hearings on the violence.

1 April 2022

Cape Town - President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted at the SA Human Rights Commission that they were not forewarned by intelligence that there would be unrest in the country.

Ramaphosa said the information they received before the riots broke out in July in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng did not point to the unrest.

01 April 2022

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has told the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that the use of state resources to fight factional battles within the party should never happen again.

01 April 2022

“We were not fully forewarned about it.”

This was the startling admission made on Friday by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he appeared before the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) investigative hearings into the July 2021 unrest and looting.

1 April 2022

Government is moving with speed to address the country’s staggering levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality, says Ramaphosa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday admitted that South Africa’s socio-economic challenges, particularly economic exclusion and inequality, were a major threat to the country’s national security.

21 April 2022

Sahrc CEO said the commission was already hard at work and monitoring developments.

The South African Human Rights Commission (Sahrc) says it will monitor closely how funds and resources meant to assist flood victims in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) are used to ensure that they are not diverted and looted due to corruption.