Attention: Editors and Reporters

28 September 2018

 

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will host Public Outreach Education engagements in the Khai! Garib Local Municipality from the 2-3 October 2018.

Attention Editors and Reporters
8th October 2018

Following a public apology in January 2018, over the hurt and humiliation caused by wording on a hoodie, the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or SAHRC) can report that, H&M, the global fashion retailer, is making substantial progress on its commitments to the Commission in correcting the offence caused.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

08 October 2018

The Mpumalanga Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) will be hosting a dialogue on the rights of children with disabilities. The purpose of the dialogue is to lay a foundation for a long-term strategic and collaborative process aimed at improving the development, participation and protection of children with disabilities.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

8 October 2018

The Northern Cape Provincial Office will be embarking on a Public Outreach Education in the Emthanjeni Local Municipality, in De Aar & Britstown.

Attention Editors and Reporters
5th October 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) lauds the decision by the Equality Court, sitting in the Gauteng Local Division of the High Court, in the matter of the South African Human Rights Commission v Velaphi Khumalo and the Legal Resources Centre as Amicus Curiae EQ 6/2016 and EQ1/2108.

02 September 2018

While the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is concerned about claims of the sale of expired goods, it says there is no justification for people taking the law into their own hands.
The commission was referring to violence that broke out during protests in White City, Soweto on Wednesday afternoon. Rubber bullets and teargas were fired to disperse crowds in different shops in the suburb.

2 September 2018

The streets of Soweto and other townships in Gauteng were calm following a week of violence and looting of foreign-owned shops, but police presence has been upped to monitor the situation.

2 September 2018

Cape Town - A senior ANC councillor has taken the party to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) after a racially heated altercation with another councillor.
Sammy Claasen, ANC councillor in the West Coast, said he has been discriminated against on the basis of his coloured and Khoisan ethnic heritage, within the ANC.

06 September 2018

"You can judge a nation by the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens." This quote has been credited to a variety of prominent historic figures such as Aristotle and Mahatma Ghandi. It has also evolved with time and has been applied in differing contexts.
Within the South African context, former president Thabo Mbeki also made reference to it. He wrote that one of the yardsticks by which to measure a society's respect for human rights, and to evaluate its level of maturity and generosity of spirit, is the status it accords to the most vulnerable members of society such as disabled people, senior citizens and children.

07 September 2018

IN an attempt to remedy the dire situation at the troubled Elonwabeni Old Age Home in Kokstad, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has requested that the South African Human Rights Commission launch an investigation into the home. This after KwaZulu-Natal DA chief whip Francois Rodgers visited the institution with DA councillors last Friday.