26 September 2019
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The Information Regulator of South Africa and the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) will co-host celebrations for the International Day for Universal Access to Information (commonly called the Access to Information Day or IDUAI) in collaboration with various stakeholders on 27 September 2019. The celebrations will take place at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus.

27 September 2019
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission and the South African Police Service, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria,  will host the first annual Human Rights and Policing Lecture entitled “Our Heritage: Dignity in Democracy”.

30 September 2019
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC), Advocate Bongani Majola is conducting a Provincial Visit in the Northern Cape from 29th September to the 4th October 2019.

26 September 2019

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) has a Constitutional mandate, as set out in section 184 (1), to promote, protect and monitor the attainment of human rights as set out in Chapter Two of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

25 September 2019

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will conduct a media engagement with Independent Media publications in Durban.

23 September 2019
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The Preamble of the South African Constitution states that: “…South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity... [We should all work to] Heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights;”
The Commission thus recognises that South Africa’s diversity in race, religion culture, language, ethnicity, social origins and other factors, is a treasure for this nation and will be joining everyone within South Africa in celebrating Heritage Day on Tuesday, the 24th September 2019.

17 September 2019
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) has on numerous occasions urged political leaders to recognise and take responsibility for the power they wield through their words.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Monday, 16 September 2019

The South African Human Rights Commission hosted a Public Inquiry into the Impact of Rural Land Use and Ownership Patterns on human rights in South Africa. Land has always been a prominent and emotive issue in South Africa. Our history of colonialism, violent conquest, dispossession, forced removals and racially skewed distribution has left us with a complex and difficult legacy.