Tuesday, 17^th July 2018

 Attention: Editors and Reporters

 The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission or SAHRC) welcomes the President of South Africa’s recent statement that a package of measures, to ease the burden of increases in VAT and fuel prices, is currently being finalised by the Ministers in the economic cluster and will be announced later in July.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) announced the Department of Health has overspent their annual budget already.

12 July 2018

POLOKWANE – These findings followed the investigative hearings into the status of health facilities in Limpopo and were announced by SAHRC Commissioner, Victor Mavhidhula, during a press conference on Tuesday.

13 July 2018

South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says the increase in value-added tax (VAT) is a threat to the human rights of the poor and cannot be constitutionally justified.

13 July 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission says while income and equality marginally decrease by 0.1% for the past four years, the gap in wealth inequality continues to widen in the country.

13 July 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission's equality report says South Africa is the most unequal country in the world.

Ten percent of South Africa's population owns 90 percent of the country's wealth, while the wealthiest 10 percent earns seven times more than the bottom 40 percent. This is according to a report on equality released by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Thursday, Business Day reported.

13 July 2018

Sithole allegedly said something to the effect that “she (Wilson) must not come with her white mentality”.

The DA has lodged a complaint against Bela-Bela Hospital clinical manager, Dr Dan Sithole, with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), following alleged “racist remarks.”

12 July 2018

The SA Human Rights Commission has criticised government for its decision to raise the Value-Added Tax (VAT) rate by the one percentage point in April, arguing it is a regressive tax hike that appears to be 'constitutionally suspect'.
The VAT rate was raised from 14% to 15% on April 1, 2018, the first change since 1993.

13 July 2018

As stats released this week reveal that South Africa remains one of world's most unequal countries, the South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says more needs to be done to eliminate the concentration of wealth from the top 1% of the population.
According to the latest report from the commission, 64% of black South Africans are living in poverty compared to 41% of coloured people, 6% of Indian people and just 1% of white people.

14 July 2018

Kate Wilkinson from Africa Check has refuted claims made by UK Mail online about the actual number of white South Africans living in poverty.

16 July 2018

The health department is the latest to run into serious financial trouble.

The health department in Mpumalanga is the latest provincial health department to be hit with a massive financial crisis, impacting on its ability to fill vacant posts and causing it millions of rands worth of negligence claims, according to City Press.