27 November 2013

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Commissioner responsible for Migration & Equality 

I am honoured to address the opening gathering of the conference on business and human rights convened by the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI). I acknowledge with appreciation our host country Ghana for welcoming us to Accra and to the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice for their invaluable contribution to the planning and support of this conference.

13 September 2013

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee for National Institutions promoting and protecting human rights (ICC)

I am honoured to address you today in my capacity as the Chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee for National Institutions promoting and protecting human rights (ICC).

13    September 2013

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Commissioner responsible for Migration & Equality 

Lecture delivered at the Kacheon University, South Korea

It is a great pleasure to be here with you today. I would like to thank the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and the authorities of the Gachon University for inviting me to share with you my little experience as a human rights defender/activist.

27 June 2013

By Deputy Chairperson Pregs Govender, SAHRC Deputy Chairperson responsible for Basic Services & Health Care

I would like to thank each of you, for the time you have taken to share your expertise, insights and experience with the Human Rights Commission. This conference is an important step in effecting our Constitutional-legislative mandate in relation to the right to information. Section 50 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act provides that ‘A requester must be given access to any record of a private body if (a) that record is required for the exercise or protection of any right.’ This conference will feed into the Commission’s broader mandate in relation to business accountability for human rights, as articulated in our Constitution, in international law and in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“Protect, Respect and Remedy”).

03 October 2012

By Deputy Chairperson Pregs Govender, Commissioner responsible for Basic Services & Health Care

The 2nd Annual Public Lecture held on Wednesday 03rd October 2012, at the University of Witwatersrand.

Today, human rights in South Africa, is defined by the Lonmin-Marikana massacre. The images of human beings killed in a hail of bullets ripped through our awareness...raising consciousness about the hard truth that the right to life and other Constitutional rights are still denied to many who are Black, poor and  working class.

Statement by Pregs Govender, Deputy Chair of the South African Human Rights Commission

28 August 2012

The tragic killing of over 30 Lonmin workers at Marikana has re-focused the spotlight on the living and working conditions of those who died and bring an added urgency to the South African Human Rights Commission’s provincial hearings on ‘Water is life; Sanitation is dignity’. These hearings also honour the memory of Commissioner Sandi Baai, who passed away on the 15 August, who strongly believed that those in positions of power must listen closely to people who are poor, especially when they make and implement policy.

Thursday, 25 August 2011

By Commissioner Sandile Baai, SAHRC Commissioner responsible for the right to housing

On behalf of the Commission, I would like to thank you for responding to our invitation to attend this media briefing.

On the 08th of February 2010, the Commission received a complaint from Agri-SA against the Minister of Human Settlements, Mr Tokyo Sexwale, for the remarks he made during an interview on the SABC - Morning Live Programme, on the 03rd of November 2009.

28th April to 12th May 2011 Banjul, The Gambia

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Commissioner responsible for Migration & Equality  

Your Excellency Representative of the Government of the Gambia,Your Excellency Representative of the African Union,
Your Excellency Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
Dear Commissioners members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
Your Excellencies Diplomats accredited to the Gambia,State delegates and Participants
Invited guests,

28th April to 12th MAY 2011 BANJUL, THE GAMBIA

SAHRC statement

Chairperson, Commissioners of the African Commission, Distinguished guests, States delegates, Friends and delegates from NHRIs Friends and Delegates from Non-governmental organisations, all protocol observed

21 March 2011

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Commissioner responsible for Migration & Equality 

Ladies and Gentlemen, today is Human Rights Day, a day in which we take stock of the progress we are making in our efforts to promote, develop and protect human rights in our country since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
On this day we commemorate in particular the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, in which more than 60 unarmed black people were shot and killed by the apartheid police during a peaceful protest march organized by PAC against the oppressive and undignified pass laws that were enforced against the will of black people in this country.