03 June 2013

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) invites members of the media to the Business and Transparency conference in Sandton Convention Centre.

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

03 June 2012

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) invites members of the media to a National Hearing focusing on issues and challenges relating to the treatment of older persons in Institutionalized care centres.

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

28 May 2013

The South African Human Rights Commission is saddened to learn of the rising death toll of child initiates in both the Mpumalanga and Limpopo Provinces. Of all of the guarantees enshrined within our Constitution, the right to life is the most fundamental. Once a person to whom the care of a child is entrusted reneges on their constitutional imperative to protect that child, it corrodes the very rudimentary aspects of the commitment we have made to them.

The South African Human Rights Commission has learnt with shock and sadness of the sudden tragic passing on of Vuyo Mbuli, a veteran journalist and a world renowned TV and Radio Presenter in the South African Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday the 19th of May 2013.  

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

13 May 2013

The South African Human Rights Commission has noted the statement by the Western Cape MEC for Education, Donald Grant in which he claims that the Commission has issued a report giving the Western Cape province 100 percent achievement in textbook delivery to schools for the 2013 school year.

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

11 May 2013

The South African Human Rights Commission has successfully facilitated a mediation, and reached an agreement between FW de Klerk Foundation and Mr Kemo Waters, a spiritual leader and founder of the Kemotheraphy Institute of Truth, over racial comments on Twitter attributed to Mr Waters.

07 May 2013

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission, Adv. Lawrence Mushwana has official been inaugurated as the new Chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC).

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) invites members of the media to the three day Regional Training Workshop on Prevention of Torture: Enhancing the Role of SADC National Human Rights Institutions in Combating Torture at the Protea Hotel Balalaika in Sandton (Gauteng).

The South African Human Rights Commission has concluded preliminary proceedings into the hearings to investigate the non-delivery of primary learning materials to schools across the country.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 April 2013

The South African Human Rights Commission will convene the second part of the hearings relating to the investigation into the non-delivery of primary learning materials to school across the country.