20 Apr 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) received complaints from residents of Kimberley in the Northern Cape regarding alleged water shortages.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Thursday, 15th April 2021

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission) notes with great concern recent, disparaging utterances made in regard the judiciary and judicial processes.

14 April 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) received complaints alleging that residents of Kimberley has been experiencing water shortages for the past three (3) days. The Commission is concerned about the impact the water shortages have on the residents and more specifically on older persons, persons with disabilities, health facilities and women and children.

14 April 2021
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office will conduct a fact finding visit as part of its monitoring mandate at Mbilwi Secondary School in the Vhembe District Municipality, after it was reported that a learner from said school has met her untimely death post the bullying acts by a fellow learner. The visit will take place today, the 14th of April 2021.

01 March 2021

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Gauteng has confirmed that an urgent meeting is planned on Tuesday morning to find out why construction at the Mayibuye Primary School in Tembisa has not been completed.

Mar 1, 2021

Pretoria – Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande’s exclusion of more than 20 000 potential first-year students from studying at Unisa is a direct contradiction to the transformation objectives in the higher education sector.

09 March 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission says it is “deeply concerned” over violent attacks on foreign vendors in Durban that left several people injured and traumatised over the past two days.

19 March 2021

A general view of displaced people leaving Strandfontein shelter on April 30, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. Is it reported that Strandfontein camp for homeless people erected by the City of Cape Town will be closed down. (Photo: Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) Less
This week, Judge Siraj Desai made a costs order against the City of Cape Town in its case against the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and 10 monitors. The commission and monitors feel that justice has prevailed. The city, meanwhile, has responded that it is considering its options.

18 March 2021

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) continues to receive complaints relating to equality, just administrative action and economic social rights violations, 27 years after the country achieved its democracy.

17 March 2021

Judge Desai found that South African Human Rights Commission monitors trying to enter the site were acting lawfully