Attention: Editors and Reporters

02 February 2022                                                      

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) working in collaboration with the Langa Advice Office will host a community engagement to educate members of the public on the Equality legislation and the work of the Institutions Supporting Democracy in the Republic. This is meant to amplify basic human rights awareness with specific focus on the equality provision of the Bill of Rights as enshrined in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic South Africa, 1996.

02 February 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters

On Thursday, 03 February 2022, the South African Human Rights Commission (“The Commission”) will conduct a site inspection of the Tholimfundo Primary School in Protea Glen, Soweto.

1 February 2022

ATT: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) has noted the decision by Cabinet on 31 January 2022 to review the resumption of schooling to full-time learning in all schools. The Commission welcomes this decision and is encouraged by the government’s prioritisation of teaching and learning.

Basic education is an immediately realisable right in the Constitution, but we must define the terms

Date: January 28 to February 3 2022
 
Comment: André Gaum

South African society has one supreme law that stands over and above all others: the Constitution. It is the body of funda-
mental principles that outlines the legal foundation for  the  existence of our republic and states the rights and duties of its citizens and those we elect to govern us. One of those fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution is that: “Everyone has the right to a basic education”, per section 29 (1)(a).
In many senses this particular right is a special right in the Constitution and different from many others since it is “immediately realisable”. Unlike the other socioeconomic rights in the Constitution — such as the rights to housing, healthcare, food, water and further education — there is no inherent qualification to the right to a basic education.

31 JANUARY 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office led by Commissioner Ntuli and J.B. Sibanyoni will this week (31 January 2022 - 04 January 2022) conduct follow-up site-visits and monitoring of areas affected by lack of access to clean drinking water and some of the areas affected negatively by mining activities in the Limpopo Province.

Date: 26 January 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) will be hosting a webinar on local government service delivery through infrastructure development and management.

20 January 2022

ATT: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) joins the rest of the nation in mourning the passing of yet another pillar upon which South Africa’s constitutional democracy was built. In a statement, Dr Max Coleman’s family confirmed that he had passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday, the 16th January 2022, aged 95.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

19 January 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission has issued the Mayor and Municipal Manager of Nyandeni Local Municipality with a Subpoena Notice to Appear before the Commission in terms of Section 15 (1) (c) and (d) of the Human Rights Commission Act No. 40 of 2013.

21 December 2021

The litigation is expected to take place in 2022, after it was revealed that more than 3,000 schools have only pit latrines for learners to use.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is set to take legal action against several provincial education departments over unsafe and unhygienic toilets in schools.

On Tuesday, the SAHRC announced it plans on taking five provincial education departments in North West, Free State, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to court, in a bid to get rid of pit toilets.

3 December 2021

Police Minister Bheki Cele is testifying at the South African Human Rights Commission hearings looking into the July unrest as the last witness for the KwaZulu-Natal proceedings.

JOHANNESBURG - Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday told the inquiry investigating the July unrest that he was not convinced the Phoenix violence, which broke out during the unrest, could be linked with racial tension, saying it was crime.
Cele is testifying at the South African Human Rights Commission hearings looking into the July unrest as the last witness for the KwaZulu-Natal proceedings.