Wednesday, 05 February 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will host a stakeholder engagement on human settlements to assess the realisation of the right to adequate housing in the Northern Cape province.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 04 February 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province, together with Commissioner Aseza Gungubele, the Commissioner responsible for Migration, Climate Justice, and Human Settlements, will conduct targeted monitoring in correctional facilities and informal settlements in the Frances Baard District Municipality, covering Kimberley and surrounding areas.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will launch a provincial human rights awareness campaign from 03 to 09 February 2025.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Northern Cape Provincial Office will conduct a stakeholder engagement focused on migration trends and issues affecting migrants in the Northern Cape Province.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) will be convening a National Investigative Inquiry into the Impact of Load Reduction on Human Rights (national investigative inquiry).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

29 January 2025 marks one year since the release of the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/Commission) July Unrest Report, ‘July’s People’, the SAHRC sought to determine the progress made on two of the report’s recommendations in particular.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will host a strategic stakeholder engagement with the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature to strengthen working relationship between the two institutions.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) will be convening an investigative inquiry into scholar transport challenges in the North West. In terms of section 184(2) of the Constitution, the Commission has the power to investigate and report on the observance of human rights and take steps to secure appropriate redress where human rights have been violated. To give effect to these powers, in terms of section 15 (1) (b) of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Act, 40 of 2013,  the Commission may require from any person such particulars and information as may be reasonably necessary in connection with any investigation. In terms of Chapter 8 of the Commission’s Complaints Handling Procedures, the Commission may conduct hearings to solicit particulars and information required in connection with an investigation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Following the release of its KwaZulu Natal Water Inquiry Report in September 2023, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) is continuing with the programme to visit District Municipalities to monitor progress on the implementation of its recommendations, and to assess the state of human rights in the respective regions.

19 January 2025

Philile Ntuli and Thenjiswa Jonas

One of South Africa’s most devastating tragedies last year was the untimely and preventable deaths of more than 20 children, who allegedly consumed food or snacks purchased from spaza shops.

Subsequent investigations revealed that the food contained traces of the organophosphate pesticide Terbufos, commonly used in agriculture.