18 Aug 2023

Parents keep 4,000 pupils away from school for a month Driekoppies community demands one school to be repaired Magubha Primary which was built in 1970 by the community has seen its structure deteriorate badly in recent years. PHOTOS MANDLA KHOZA By Maudla Khoza Thousands of pupils from four schools in Driekoppies, Mpumalanga, have been stopped from attending classes since July by their parents in protest over poor infrastructure at one of the schools. Today, exactly a month since the third term started on July 18, there has been no teaching and learning for more than 4,000 pupils from the village in Malelane. Parents told Sowetan that the protest was in solidarity with nearly 1,000 pupils from Magubha primary who have not been attending class as their parents feared for their lives because their classrooms were old, had cracks and posed a danger to the pupils. The other three schools are Driekoppies Combined, Bukhosibetfu Inclusive and Joseph Matsebula Secondary.

05 Aug 2023

Antigay WhatsApp group lands shopkeeper in more trouble Brandon Nel A WhatsApp group with a seemingly homophobic narrative has landed a Gqeberha man who barred queer people from entering his Parkside shop in further trouble with the SA Human Rights Commission SAHRC , with the matter now before the Equality Court The group, started by the owner of La Gardi Catering Plastics, Dawood Lagardien, has close to 700 members and has become the latest bone of contention for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+ community Lagardien grabbed headlines last month when he placed a sign outside his shop which read: "LGBTQflot welcome at Lagardi, save our children".

04 August 2023

THE WATER crisis in Warrenton has resulted in a stabbing and several fights, while guest houses and private residences that have made their water tanks available to community members have decided to lock their gates out of fear of violence. Community members are on tenterhooks after a resident was stabbed while queuing for water and was taken to the Warrenton Hospital for medical treatment earlier this week. "What more must we endure? This person could have died," they said. This follows an incident where an 11yearold girl was injured when she was hit by a vehicle on the N12 when she accompanied her mother to fetch water in March. Warrenton has been without any water since February this year after floods damaged the pipes.

08 August 2023

Undocumented migrants are accused of illegally occupying land and houses in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, and 20 people were killed there in the first three months of the year. Pictures: Nigel Sibanda SA 'can't afford' illegal migrants ACTIONSA LEADER: SLAMS HOME AFFAIRS' INERTIA FILTH. Olievenhoutbosch residents pick through rubbish on a street in Marabastad in Centurion recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda Both citizens and foreigners do crime rights commissioner. Lunga Mzangwe ActionSA president Herman Mashaba, who is known to advocate against illegal foreigners, doesn't care about the crime statistics he says South Africa cannot afford to have even one undocumented person in the country. "I'm very clear, I don't want to live in a country where there is even one undocumented person.

06 September 2023

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC/ Commission) welcomes the Western Cape Equality Court’s Judgement which was handed down on Monday, 21 August 2023, in the matter of South African Human Rights Commission v Oscar Peter Bougardt.

In 2013, the SAHRC instituted proceedings against Oscar Peter Bougardt (Rev Bougardt) regarding discriminatory statements he made against gay and lesbian people between the period October 2011 and November 2012.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

06 September 2023

The SAHRC Western Cape provincial office working in partnership with the Western Cape Education Department, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, and Legal Aid South Africa hosted the provincial oral rounds of the National Schools Moot Court Programme, at the Paarl  Magistrates Courts on 26 August 2023.  The oral round was a platform used to gauge the participating schools with the aim of selecting a provincial team to represent the Western Cape at the national rounds to be held in Gauteng later this year.

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Monday, 04 September 2023

The National Development Plan (NDP) envisions the transformation of human settlements and the spatial economy to create a functionally integrated, balanced, and vibrant urban settlement by 2030. The NDP, however, only refers homeless people once, when stating that the relocation of homeless people should be the responsibility of the Department of Social Development and not the police.

THEME- "GOOD GOVERNANCE STARTS AT HOME’

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04 September 2023

Through an extensive consultation process, the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) has conceptualised an intervention targeted at modifying the country's current direction, which appears to be at odds with the values of the democratic state, united in its diversity, as the Constitution envisions. A good and harmonious family system is more than just and legacy. Sustainable families and communities adhere to guiding principles that promote trust, accountable power, the advancement of rights, the protection of the vulnerable and open communication. The Social Harmony Through National Effort (SHiNE) project, speaks to good change from the ground up, such as having family meetings to explore minimising sources of disharmony in the home, increasing communal engagement, locating platforms with meaningful connections and ubuntu.

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01 September 2023

The provincial oral rounds of the School Moot Court competition will be hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission in collaboration with the Free State Education Department, the University of the Free State, and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.

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1 September 2023

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) in Limpopo Provincial Office will be conducting monitoring in places of detention and stakeholder engagements aimed at curbing tribalism in Limpopo, Vhembe District Municipality.