TO: EDITORS/REPORTERS   

05 September 2021

The unprecedented conflicts, violence, looting and the destruction of infrastructure witnessed in the month of July 2021 and the resultant deaths in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal necessitated the two Commissions, namely, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious, and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to facilitate interventions in line with their respective mandates. Also, these interventions are in line with the President’s clarion call for all structures and organizations to do everything within their powers and mandates to contribute towards the rebuilding, reconstruction, stabilizing and normalizing of communities through partnerships and collaborative efforts that can facilitate peace, stability and community integration.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

03 September 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission working in partnership with the Western Cape Education Department, Legal Aid South Africa and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will host the provincial rounds of the moot court competition. 

2 September 2021

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) welcomes the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to grant the Commission leave to intervene as a third party in the matter of Semenya v Switzerland (application no. 10934/21). This is the first time that the Commission is involved in human rights litigation in an international forum, and also the first known occasion that the ECtHR has granted leave to intervene to an African human rights institution.

Semenya v Switzerland

2 September 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) is hosting an urgent media briefing today, the 2nd September 2021 at 12:00 PM at its Western Cape Provincial Office, in Cape Town, 7th Floor ABSA building, 132 Adderley Street. The briefing will also be live streamed, the link follows below and can be viewed on our website and social media pages. All members of the media are invited to join the briefing.

24 August 2021

While residents in Limpopo live in a nightmare of overflowing sewage and no running water, ANC councillors have been accused of being too busy bickering instead of attending to infrastructure issues plaguing Mahwelereng.

24 August 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it was relieved that calls for a national shutdown on Monday were not heeded.

The commission said it was encouraged by law enforcement agencies' pro-active response. Various agencies collaborated to ensure that there were measures in place to prevent any unrest similar to the riots and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July, which claimed more than 300 lives.

18 August 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says social cohesion initiatives have so far yielded positive results at Phoenix, Bambayi and surrounding areas in the north of Durban following last month’s violent unrest.

17 August 2021

There is a collapse of local government in the North West, according to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).

This as the state of North West municipalities is a major cause of concern.

13 August 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) slammed a video warning foreign nationals not to open new spaza shops in Soweto.

This was after a video by a man in camouflage who identifies himself as Nhlanhla Lux from the "Soweto Parliament", issues a warning to foreign nationals in the spaza shop business.