Attention: Editors and Reporters
02 February 2026

On Tuesday 03 February 2026, the Ministers of Mineral and Petroleum Resources; Honourable Gwede Mantashe, and the Minister of Social Development, Honourable Nokuzola Tolashe, will appear before the South African Human Rights Commission’s(Commission/SAHRC) National Inquiry into Policy Framework around Artisanal Mining, the Impact of Artisanal Mining on the human rights of surrounding communities and the scope and tactics employed in Operation Vala Umgodi (Inquiry).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Tuesday, 03 March 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) will on, 04-05 March 2026, host a two-day National Conference on Human-Border, and responsible Migration. This conference is convened in terms of the Commission’s mandate to protect and promote human rights in the country.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 02 March 2026

The month of March is significant in the history of human rights in South Africa. It should remind the country and the world of many human rights atrocities that occurred during Apartheid. March is also an opportunity to zoom in on the current state of human rights to reflect on the gains and highlight the challenges facing the progressive realisation of human rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 02 March 2026

The month of March is significant in the history of human rights in South Africa. It should remind the country and the world of many human rights atrocities that occurred during Apartheid. March is also an opportunity to zoom in on the current state of human rights to reflect on the gains and highlight the challenges facing the progressive realisation of human rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Monday, 23 February 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission/SAHRC) has noted and is actively monitoring the planned auction of 50 parcels of municipal land by the City of Cape Town (the City), scheduled for Thursday, 26 February 2026.

By Philile Ntuli

Friday, 20 February 2026

In 2021, a small cooperative garden in rural KwaZulu-Natal quietly transformed a community’s relationship with food. What began as a handful of older women planting amadumbe, cowpeas, imifino and sorghum on communal land grew into a seed-sharing network that could supply nearby households.

Friday, 13 February 2026
By Philile Ntuli

The demographic character of South Africa’s food and hunger crisis is often framed as a contemporary, post-1994 failure, resulting from unemployment, inequality or weak governance. But in reality, the racial, geographic and class-based nature of present-day hunger draws its roots from a well-designed, carefully legislated and openly defended colonial system.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 17 February 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC / the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province officially launches its Final Investigative Report into the Conditions at the Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital (NCMHH) following an own-initiative investigation conducted in line with its constitutional and statutory mandate.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: Thursday, 12 February 2026

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is concerned by the ongoing water challenges engulfing the country. Communities and households in various parts of the country are battling with lack of access to water. Water is a fundamental human right entrenched in section 27 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. Water is the lifeblood of human existence and plays a critical role in the achievement of several rights, such as healthcare, children’s rights, and education.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
6 February 2026

The subpoena hearing against the Executive Mayor of the City of Matlosana (“Matlosana”), Councillor Fikile Mahlophe (“Mahlophe”), is scheduled to continue on 9 February 2026. The first sitting of the hearing was convened on 12 January 2026, but could not conclude due to the need for the hearing of further evidence.