Attention: Editors and Reporters
21 December 2020

Over the years, the South African Human Rights Commission in Mpumalanga (“Commission”) has received a number of complaints relating to water and sanitation challenges in Mpumalanga which impact negatively on communities, affect many aspects of their daily living and ultimately pose a serious risk to their health.

Letter of apology by Mcebo Dlamini to the Jewish community

Attention: Editors and Reporters

14 December 2020

Over the years, the SAHRC Mpumalanga Provincial Office has received numerous complaints regarding undocumented children, who have been denied access to schools due to lack of documentation. The Commission considers this continuing conduct from some schools as a gross violation of the rights of children enshrined in the Constitution.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

14 December 2020

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”), Mpumalanga Provincial Office will be conducting a workshop on the right to equality under the theme: “Fighting Gender Inequality.” Gender inequality is rooted in gender-based discrimination, social norms and gender stereotypes.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

11 December 2020

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the SAHRC and to commemorate International Human Rights Day the Gauteng Provincial Office of the Commission has produced a five part podcast series looking at the work of the Commission.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
9 December 2020

The SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office will commemorate International Human Rights Day and 25 years’ celebration of SAHRC at Phahla Manoge village, in the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality to share and popularise its constitutional mandate.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tuesday, 8th December 2020

                      
The 10th December 2020, marks an auspicious day when the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the South African Human Rights Commission, The Project Justice Trust and Constitution Hill are joining in a partnership to observe International Human Rights Day - to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the signing of the South African Constitution into law in 1996, the 25th  anniversary of the SAHRC and the 20th year since the passing of the first black Chief Justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, the late Chief Justice Ismail Mohamed.

25 November 2020

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has condemned violence during a EFF protest in Brackenfell, Cape Town, last week, saying all protest action should be peaceful and not infringe on other people's rights.

25 November 2020

The organisation used the phrase on a poster about its unsanctioned demonstration following an Economic Freedom Fighter protest relating to a private matric party attended only by some white learners, parents and teachers.

20 November 2020

CAPE TOWN - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Thursday called for calm ahead of the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) planned anti-racism protest outside Brackenfell High School on Friday.