14 November 2018

Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has apologised for his comments following a citizen’s arrest of a man transporting cow heads.
Mashaba faced a lot of backlash after tweeting that he had arrested a man who was transporting cow heads on a trolley.
Among other comments he made, Mashaba said at the time that the meat also posed a potential risk of an ebola outbreak.
He was lambasted for, among others, embarrassing a person who was attempting to make a living through the selling of the meat. Others said that instead of ridiculing the man, he should have called in health inspectors and experts to advise him on how he can make his business more professional.

8 November 2018

Cape Town – Bullying at schools has come under the spotlight again as a Woodstock mother approached the SA Human Right Commission (SAHRC) for help. This as another took to social media in a desperate bid for intervention for her child.

Jamielah Kagee said her son, a Grade 5 pupil at Rahmaniyeh Primary School in Zonnebloem, had suffered physical abuse from fellow pupils since he started at the school this year, and although she had taken it up with the school’s management, the situation had stayed the same.
Kagee said the alleged incidents had landed her and the school in court on two occasions and another court case was pending. “I’ve been to the school so many times... it’s affecting him, he cries in his sleep and he’s lost a lot of weight,” Kagee said.

9 November 2018

Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa will be subpoenaed by the SAHRC as part of its investigation into the deaths of nine babies at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Baby Hospital in Gauteng.
The infants died as a result of a deadly bacteria outbreak at the hospital earlier this year.
Now the commission is demanding answers.

10 November 2018

The hospital violated the right to access healthcare and section 28 of the constitution‚ which says the best interests of children are of paramount importance‚ the HRC says.

Management of the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Coronationville‚ Johannesburg‚ has conceded that it violated patients’ rights to high-quality healthcare after nine babies died there earlier in 2018.

10 November 2018

JOHANNESBURG - The Human Rights Commission has called on the parents of nine infants who died at a Johannesburg hospital to come forward.

12 November 2018

The SANDF is preparing to deploy technical teams to restore infrastructure at the polluted Vaal River system

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is preparing to deploy technical teams to restore infrastructure at the polluted Vaal River system‚ and has warned criminals that troops will protect its equipment.

08 November 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission inspected the Rahima Moosa Mother & Child Hospital on 8 November.

The investigation at the Rahima Moosa Hospital followed after a necrotising enterocolitis outbreak at the hospital took the lives of nine infants from March to July 2018.

13 November 2018

Durban - The eThekwini Municipality has fired Gideon Phungula as the head of the legal department after he was found guilty of making racist remarks and of trying to influence the outcome of a disciplinary hearing against a senior official.
These charges stem from a telephone conversation that Phungula had with one of the staff members at the city’s legal department.
A probe was initiated after a leaked audio recording of the call started doing the rounds.

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Tuesday, 13 November 2018

 

In its efforts to promote a culture of and the observance of human rights, today, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South African Police Service (SAPS). Both parties recognised that the duty to protect people and property has implications for the promotion and protection of human rights and ensuring that peace and security is maintained in our democracy.