Attention: Editors and Reporters

02 September 2019

As part of the 2019 Schools Moot Court Competition, the Western Cape Provincial Office working in partnership with the Department of Justice and the Department of Basic Education (WC) will be hosting a capacity building workshop aimed at empowering learners and educators in preparation to partake in the national competition later in the year.

2 September 2019

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission, Adv. Bongani Majola, will be conducting a Provincial Visit in the KwaZulu-Natal Province from Monday, 2 September to 6 September 2019. The purpose of this visit is to inspect and assess the status of some of the public health care facilities in the province. The Chairperson also hopes to learn more on the current state of access to oncology treatment in KZN following the Commission’s June 2017 investigative report on access to oncology treatment in the province.

30 August 2019

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) met with Eben Etzebeth and his legal team, on Thursday, 29 August 2019, following the complaint and allegations against the rugby player.

I Adam Catzavelos acknowledge and admit that I, on the 12th day of August 2018, made a selfie video of myself whilst on a beach on holiday in Greece where I made a racial slur, using the “k” word with reference to black South Africans in general.

28 August 2019

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tomorrow, 29 August 2019, the Equality Court sitting in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court will hear the South African Human Rights Commission’s (“the Commission”) hate speech case against Mr Adam Catzavelos. This application by the Commission follows Mr Catzavelos self-recorded video in which he makes racist remarks.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

27 August 2019

Over the years, the SAHRC Mpumalanga Provincial Office has received numerous complaints regarding undocumented learners, 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

26 August 2019

The SAHRC will host two Community Media Outreach Engagements in the Nama Khoi Local Municipality, in Okiep in Namaqualand, on 25 & 30 August 2019. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

26 August 2019

The SAHRC will host various public outreach engagements in the Richtersveld local municipal area, in Namaqualand which consist of the towns Port Nolloth, Alexander Bay, Lekkersing & Eksteenfontein, from 26-29 August 2019. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

27 August 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”), Mpumalanga Provincial Office will be conducting information sessions on the rights of women under the theme: “Fighting Gender-based Violence against Women.” Women and girls continue to experience violence in their daily lives. They are beaten, coerced into sex or abused usually by someone they know or by a stranger.  Almost every day, women and children are raped and killed in the province.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

23 August 2019

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”), Western Cape Provincial Office, will be visiting facilities accommodating the elderly in the cape metro district to conduct monitoring of the facilities, this will also include information sessions to amplify basic human rights awareness enshrined in Chapter 2 of the Constitution – the Bill of Rights. The information sessions are centered under the theme “Know Your Rights and Responsibilities”.