4 March 2020

The lack of infrastructure development and high vacancy rates at a number of healthcare facilities in the Free State are amongst some of the key issues that needs to be addressed.

09 April 2020
ATT: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is aware and is taking action relating to a video circulating on social media in which the Mayor of Matjhabeng, Mr. Nkosinjani Speelman, in the Free State, refers to members of the Coloured community in Bronville, Welkom, using words that are not only offensive but may also negatively touch on their dignity as human beings. The Commission also notes that its Provincial Office in the Free State had called upon the Mayor to apologise.

8 April 2020

JOHANNESBURG – The South African Human Rights Commission has signed a historic agreement with UNICEF.
The agreement is meant to advance children’s rights in all spheres, including policies and actions against COVID-19 regardless of migratory status.

5 April 2020

The enforcement of lockdown regulations has resulted in 38 reported incidents against the police, ranging from murder, assault and rape to discharging of a firearm.
The allegations, lodged with the police watchdog, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), include eight deaths and one rape.
Of these cases, six were “deaths owing to police action” and two emanated from “deaths in police custody”.
According to Ipid spokesperson Sontaga Seisa, the two deaths that occurred in police custody took place in Limpopo.

4 April 2020
 
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) is investigating 38 cases brought against police members across the country for reported misconduct during the lockdown period so far.

01 April 2020

It is of great concern that despite the rights contained in international conventions and the Bill of Rights, there is still a large human rights implementation gap in South Africa.
This is partly due to a lack of adequate and efficient systems to monitor the implementation of these rights as well as what informs decision-making on the allocation of resources towards the realisation of these rights.

31 Mar 2020


CAPE TOWN, March 31 (ANA) - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it will continue to monitor the observance of human rights throughout the country's coronavirus lockdown.

6 February 2020

It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders

Gushwell Brooks

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” This saying, attributed to Gandhi, best describes South Africa’s departure from capital punish- ment in the seminal Constitutional Court  case  State  v  Makwanyane and Another, which was decided on June 6 1995 and which re-affirmed the fundamental right to life and human dignity, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.

23 February 2020

Win by Team SA, made up of intelligent and vibrant youngsters, gives hope that our human rights future is in good hands, writes André Gaum and Gushwell F Brooks

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) joined the rest of South Africa in congratulating the International Moot Court champions – Team SA – on their phenomenal win at the fifth International School Moot Court Competition in Gdynia, Poland, on January 31 this year.
Early last year the commission became the lead institution in presenting the National Schools Moot Court Competition (NSMCC) with our main partners being the departments of basic education and justice and constitutional development and the Centre for Human Rights.
This provided an opportunity to all grades 10 and 11 pupils to participate in the competition.

Gushwell Brooks

26 Feb 2020

HUMAN RIGHTS

On the evening of Thursday, February 6, 23-year-old Lindokuhle Cele went to his butchery in uMlazi, KwaZulu-Natal. While he was waiting to be served, a taxi pulled up and a man jumped out, walked up to Cele and stabbed him.