Attention: Editors and Reporters

29 July 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s Mpumalanga Provincial Office will be holding a stakeholder engagement on the eradication of pit latrines in public schools in Mpumalanga.

The engagement follows reports indicating that there are several schools in the province that still make use of pit latrines, despite having such toilets been declared degrading, unsafe and banned by the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure of 2013.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

25 July 2024

The Gauteng Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in collaboration with the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is hosting a dialogue to unpack the National Investigative Hearing Report into the July 2021 Unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal (July Unrest Report).

Attention: Editors and Reporters

24 July 2024

The Western Cape Provincial Office (WCPO) of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) will be conducting various monitoring activities in the Garden Route District. According to Section 184(1)(c) of the Constitution, the Commission is tasked with monitoring and assessing the observance of human rights in the Republic. The monitoring and assessment of potential and actual human rights violations allow the Commission to ensure redress and uphold human rights in the Republic.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

22 July 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will be conducting monitoring activities in the Alfred Nzo and Joe Gqabi District Municipalities from 22 - 26 July 2024. The ECPO has received complaints in these areas relating to potential human rights violations and considering this, the provincial office will conduct monitoring activities to collect additional information for further assessment. A community outreach engagement will be conducted at the request of the community in Mt Fletcher.

Date: 18 July 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) Limpopo Provincial Office (LPO) will conduct a Stakeholder Engagement in Musina, Limpopo.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 July  2024

The North West Provincial Office is conducting a subpoena hearing in respect of the officials of the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

17 July 2024                                                                                  

The North West Provincial Office (NWPO) will conduct a subpoena hearing in respect of the Head of the Department of Health (“the Department”) in the North West. The subpoena hearing relates to various complaints about access to the province’s health care services. The NWPO wrote numerous correspondences to the Department in its quest to investigate the complaints it received, which were not responded to.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Monday, 15 July 2024                   

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or the SAHRC) has learned with great sadness about the passing of former Deputy Chairperson, Dr. Zonke Majodina.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Friday, 12 July 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) has taken note of the outcome of the Life Esidimeni inquest handed down by the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, 10 July 2024. The Life Esidimeni tragedy is one of the saddest and most unacceptable chapters in the history of the health care system in democratic South Africa. These were mental health care users who were supposed to be looked after and cared for, yet they were neglected and subjected to inhumane treatment which tragically led to some losing their lives.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

10 July 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) marks three years since the occurrence of the July 2021 Unrest, which claimed the lives of more than 350 people in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.