Attention: Editors and Reporters
01 February 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission/SAHRC) wishes to communicate the commencement of the second leg of the National Inquiry into Policy Framework around Artisanal Mining, the Impact of Artisanal Mining on the human rights of surrounding communities and the scope and tactics employed in Operation Vala Umgodi (Inquiry).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
02 February 2026

On Tuesday 03 February 2026, the Ministers of Mineral and Petroleum Resources; Honourable Gwede Mantashe, and the Minister of Social Development, Honourable Nokuzola Tolashe, will appear before the South African Human Rights Commission’s(Commission/SAHRC) National Inquiry into Policy Framework around Artisanal Mining, the Impact of Artisanal Mining on the human rights of surrounding communities and the scope and tactics employed in Operation Vala Umgodi (Inquiry).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Tuesday, 03 March 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) will on, 04-05 March 2026, host a two-day National Conference on Human-Border, and responsible Migration. This conference is convened in terms of the Commission’s mandate to protect and promote human rights in the country.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 02 March 2026

The month of March is significant in the history of human rights in South Africa. It should remind the country and the world of many human rights atrocities that occurred during Apartheid. March is also an opportunity to zoom in on the current state of human rights to reflect on the gains and highlight the challenges facing the progressive realisation of human rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 02 March 2026

The month of March is significant in the history of human rights in South Africa. It should remind the country and the world of many human rights atrocities that occurred during Apartheid. March is also an opportunity to zoom in on the current state of human rights to reflect on the gains and highlight the challenges facing the progressive realisation of human rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 23 February 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission/SAHRC) has noted and is actively monitoring the planned auction of 50 parcels of municipal land by the City of Cape Town (the City), scheduled for Thursday, 26 February 2026.

By Philile Ntuli

Friday, 20 February 2026

In 2021, a small cooperative garden in rural KwaZulu-Natal quietly transformed a community’s relationship with food. What began as a handful of older women planting amadumbe, cowpeas, imifino and sorghum on communal land grew into a seed-sharing network that could supply nearby households.

Friday, 13 February 2026
By Philile Ntuli

The demographic character of South Africa’s food and hunger crisis is often framed as a contemporary, post-1994 failure, resulting from unemployment, inequality or weak governance. But in reality, the racial, geographic and class-based nature of present-day hunger draws its roots from a well-designed, carefully legislated and openly defended colonial system.