3 May 2018

KENYA JOINED the rest of the world to celebrate freedom of the press this week under a hostile and uncertain environment for the media.

Despite numerous public promises by President Uhuru Kenyatta to safeguard press freedom, the situation has continued to deteriorate as police and senior state officials increasingly get away with physical attacks or open threats to journalists writing on sensitive issues.

4 May 2018

KwaZulu Natal (KZN) is facing a cancer crisis. Within a year more than 300 cancer patients have reportedly died at one hospital alone (Nkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital), as a result of being unable to access life-saving treatment in time. Some cancer patients have even moved to other provinces to get necessary treatment. Heartbroken families are angry that the health system is failing the most vulnerable, patients who rely on public healthcare services.

4 May 2018

The Limpopo High Court has ordered the provincial health department and the Ndlovu Care Group to go back to the negotiating table and come up with a takeover plan for the NGO’s programmes.

4 May 2018

“Whilst this intervention was originally intended to investigate and recommend interventions to solve problems in our College of Law, it became apparent during the initial phases of the investigation that the problem could be widespread.”

9 May 2018

The University of South Africa (Unisa) will come under the spotlight from Tuesday as the Human Rights Commission begins an investigation into allegations of racism‚ discrimination‚ sexism and harassment at the “entire institution”.

10 May 2018

An employee relations practitioner in the Human Resources Department at the University of South Africa (UNISA) told the South African Human Rights Commission that he experienced resistance when he attempted to conclude investigations into the directors accused of bullying and harassing subordinates

14 May 2018

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all South Africans to use today, Thursday 10 May 2018, to reflect on the values and legacy of President Nelson Mandela who was inaugurated on this day in 1994 as the Founding President of a democratic South Africa.

14 May 2018

KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo will square up on Monday to the South African Human Rights Commission‚ which last year slated his department for its failure to provide adequate cancer treatment for the province’s sick.

14 May 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wants the Springs family in the east of Johannesburg that allegedly racially abused and forced their worker to drink liquid human faeces to pay him R100 000 in compensation.

14 May 2018

In an unprecedented move‚ a magistrate sitting at the Equality Court in Springs on the East Rand on Monday barred the public and the media from covering the case of a man who was allegedly forced to eat faeces and racially abused by his employer.