Attention: Editors and Reporters
06 October 2021

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the South Africa Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at formalising partnership between the two entities in the promotion and protection of the human rights of asylum-seekers, refugees, internally displaced people and stateless persons in South Africa.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

06 October 2021

In July 2020 the SAHRC received a complaint from a member of the public relating to the social media account known as “Tracy Zille”. It appeared from the account that a white woman was making disparaging, racist and harassing comments towards black women in particular.

05 October 2021

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The 2021-2022 financial year marks the second year that the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission or SAHRC) participates in organising and hosting the National Schools Moot Court Competition (NSMCC). 

04 October 2021

On 30 September 2021, the President announced that the country would move to risk level 1 and added that the Department of Health will soon be rolling out a vaccination certificate that can be used to facilitate travel and other forms of activity that require proof of vaccination status. Sometime earlier the Minister of Health had stated that the Department is looking at vaccination mandates.

30 September 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission), held its first media briefing today, the 30th September 2021.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

29 September 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission will be conducting a human rights champion workshop on 30 September 2021. The identified human rights champions will be empowered on the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission.

29 September 2021

Attention Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) has put six (6) Provincial MEC’s for Education on terms concerning water and sanitation deficiencies at schools in their provinces.  These are the MECs for Education of KwaZulu Natal, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Free State and the Eastern Cape.

Pierneef Theatre retracts its Press Statement made during October 2020, regarding the cancellation of the Children’s Theatre production by the Drizzles Production House, unconditionally and in its totality.  Click here to read the full apology

29 September 2021

Attention Editors and Reporters

The mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) is, among others, to promote respect for human rights and a culture of human rights and includes powers to carry out research and to educate.
In line with this constitutional imperative, the SAHRC will host regular, monthly media briefings and use these media briefings as an opportunity to proactively keep all within South Africa abreast of developments in the work of the Commission as well as report on progress made on important matters. The Commission also sees this as an opportunity to highlight work it is doing that may ordinarily receive little media and public attention.

24 September 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is investigating two hospitals in Mpumalanga for alleged lack of medical services and another for water shortages.