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Date: 07 February 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office (LPO) will conduct the Human Rights Champions Workshop from the 07th to the 8th of February 2024. The workshop is part of empowering the Human Rights Champions who play an important role in different communities and who assist the SAHRC in the advancement of human rights.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

6 FEBRUARY 2024

The North West Provincial Office of the Commission (NWPO), in collaboration with Commissioner Nomahlubi Khwinana, will conduct school monitoring at various schools in the North West. The purpose of the monitoring is to assess the schools’ readiness for the 2024 academic year, with a particular reference to the state of the infrastructure, availability of LTSM, adequacy of staff and other support services at the various schools.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

05 February 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will be conducting monitoring activities in the Sarah Baartman District and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipalities from 4th February to 9th February 2024. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

05 February 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (“the Commission”) office in Western Cape will be conducting various monitoring activities in Cape Winelands District Municipality Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution states that, the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic.  The role of monitoring and assessing potential and actual human right violations provides the Commission with an opportunity to ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld in the Republic.

Wednesday, 31 January 2024                                                        

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is concerned with the racial tension that occurred at Groblersdal Magistrate Court, in Limpopo Province on the 24th of January 2024 and the increasing number of incidents of violence allegedly motivated by racial divisions in the area. The Commission strongly condemns these acts which appear to be dividing the community of Groblersdal and calls for calm from all parties involved.

Date: 30 January 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Limpopo Provincial Office (LPO) has undertaken to host and facilitate a dialogue on the right to equality in the Limpopo Province. The LPO envisages to engage in conversations on the promotion of equality to further the understanding of effects that social injustice has on the community, founded on the experiences and interactions with the fellow community members.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

26 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) invite members of the media to the launch of the 2021 July Unrest Investigative hearings reports. The two reports will be jointly released by the two Chapter 9 bodies on the investigative work carried out into specific issues following the unrest that occurred in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng in July 2021.

 25 January 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission's (Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will be conducting monitoring of scholar transport challenges faced by learners in the Amathole East District Municipality.  Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution empowers the Commission to monitor and assess the observance of human rights throughout the country. This includes inspecting areas of potential violation and seeking redress where necessary.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC / Commission) has noted the ongoing protest action that commenced on 22 January 2024, by members of the Verulam community and other surrounding areas, regarding the lack of access to water, which has resulted in some of these communities being without water for more than 90 days. On 23 January 2024, the Commission convened an urgent meeting with representatives of the Verulam Water Crisis Committee, Tongaat Civic Association and eThekwini Municipality with a view to address the concerns.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

24 January 2024

Commissioner Aseza Gungubele of the South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) will be visit the province and conduct monitoring activities and stakeholder meetings in order to familiarize himself with the current state of human rights in the province. Commissioner Gungubele has been assigned as the Commissioner who will provide support to the Western Cape Provincial Office. As one of his first official duties, Commissioner Gungubele will seek to meet with the Member of the Executive Council for Education, Minister David Maynier, as well as conduct a number of inspections.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

23 January 2024

 

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (“the Commission”) office in Western Cape will be conducting various monitoring activities in Central Karoo District Municipality District. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution states that, the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic.  The role of monitoring and assessing potential and actual human right violations provides the Commission with an opportunity to ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld in the Republic.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

23 January 2024

The North West Provincial Office (NWPO) of the South African Human Rights Commission will convene subpoena proceedings against the Acting HOD for the North West Department of Education, Provincial Commissioner of SAPS and Principal of Orbit College, following their failure to respond to correspondences addressed to them in connection with various complaints currently being investigated by the NWPO.

17 January 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will be conducting monitoring of the state of readiness for reopening of schools. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Republic states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic. The role of monitoring and assessing human rights and potential human rights violations, provides for an opportunity for the Commission to inspect areas of potential violation, and facilitate redress where required.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

17 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) is embarking on a school monitoring programme within the 4 education districts in the province. The purpose of the programme is to observe the levels of readiness of schools to open for the 2024 academic year. The programme shall assess inter alia: enrolments, availability of LTSM, conditions of teaching and learning, etc.

17 January 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be conducting monitoring during the schools reopening for the 2024 academic year. The main objective of this monitoring initiative is to evaluate the current state of human rights in education, emphasising aspects that directly impact on learners, parents, and educators.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

17 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Free State Provincial Office (FSPO) will embark on a school readiness program that consists of monitoring of schools within the province, as a mechanism to ensure the observance of and the promotion of Human Rights.  Section 29 of the Constitution of South Africa states that everyone has the right to basic education, including adult basic education and to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

16 January 2024

Basic Education is one of the focus areas identified by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to effectively fulfil its mandate of promoting, protecting, and monitoring the realisation of Human Rights in South Africa.

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16 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng Provincial Office (GPO) will visit The Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital on 16 January 2024.

The Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital, in Krugersdorp is a teaching institute for Wits University, University of Johannesburg as well as the North West University. The Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital, serves as a referral centre for most central, regional and district hospitals in southern Gauteng and parts of the North-West province and sees hundreds of patients for treatment and rehabilitation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

15 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (Commission) Western Cape Provincial Office (WCPO) is concerned at reports that the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) expects to have to find places for currently 688 new applicants at the start of the school year. Following budget reductions across all state funded institutions and departments, plans to build schools to meet the expected demand could not be carried out. As a result, the annual drive to assist in placing learners from other provinces wishing to attend schools in the Western Cape and late applicants from the Western Cape will be even more difficult than usual.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Monday, 15 January 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or the Commission) remains concerned with the ongoing floods that affected Ladysmith, Dundee, Mandeni and more recently those that occurred over the weekend in parts of the KZN North Coast and other surrounding areas, as well as the adverse weather conditions (heavy rains, whirlwinds, and lightning) which continue to affect parts of the KwaZulu- Natal Province.

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