Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 02 October 2025  

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) is aware of the alleged homophobic and offensive utterances on social media platforms made recently by Mr Ngizwe Mchunu against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQI+) community.

Thursday, 2 October 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) welcomes the order granted against the City of Johannesburg and City Power by the Johannesburg High Court on 18 September 2025 in an urgent matter concerning the unlawful demolition of homes in Alexandra Township.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the Barney Pityana Family, will host a Human Rights Lecture under the theme 31 Years of Human Rights in South.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 29 SEPTEMBER 2025                                                         

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission/) will hold a 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.

Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) calls for social harmony in the country as South Africa the 2025 Heritage Day festivities get underway. The Commission urges members of society to cultivate a culture of social tolerance and harmony while observing this year’s Heritage Day.

Monday, 28 September 2025

Attention: Editors and Reporters

In September 2006, South Africa signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). In terms of the OPCAT, State Parties are required to establish, designate, or maintain a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to prevent torture and other forms of ill-treatment in places of deprivation of liberty, including through regular visits with or without prior notice.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 23 October 2025

This October marks the 30^th anniversary of the establishment of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/Commission). To commemorate this milestone, the SAHRC will host a symposium to critically reflect on its legacy.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 17 October 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/Commission) has released a report titled Current Status: Implementation of the Recommendations contained in July’s People: The National Investigative Hearing into the July 2021 Unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (Current Status Report. The Current Status Report provides an update on the implementation of recommendations that the SAHRC made in its report titled July’s People: The National Investigative Hearing into the July 2021 Unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (July Unrest Report). The July Unrest Report was a product of a National Investigative Hearing (Hearing) undertaken by the SAHRC between 15 November 2021 and 21 June 2022 following Unrest that took place in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July 2021. The Hearing took place in Durban and Johannesburg.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Date: 12 October 2025

On World Food Day, 16 October 2025, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) in collaboration with the Union Against Hunger (UAH), will host a webinar on The Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in South Africa.

Saturday, 11 October 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in partnership with the Departments of Basic Education as well as Justice and Constitutional Development, will host the grand finale of the 14^th Annual South African National Schools Moot Court Programme at the Constitutional Hill in Johannessburg on 12 October 2025.