Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 07 October 2025

Following reports that Operation Dudula, March & March, and other individuals and groups were denying non-nationals and undocumented persons access to public health care facilities by blocking access to these facilities for these patients, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) issued a media statement on Wednesday, 02 July 2025 wherein it emphasised that the right to access healthcare services is a universal right afforded to everyone within the borders of the Republic as guaranteed in the Constitution.

Monday, 06 October 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC / the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be conducting a Provincial Inquiry into the State of Service Delivery within Local Municipalities across the Northern Cape, as part of its constitutional mandate to promote, protect, monitor and assess the observance of human rights in South Africa.

Monday, 29 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.

Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) calls for social harmony in the country in celebration of National Heritage Day 2025.

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Attention: Editors and Reporters

1. Misconceptions, misinformation and disinformation

On Tuesday, 09 September 2025, the South African Human Rights Commission launched four reports: the State of Human Rights in South Africa Report, the Monitoring of Implementation of Recommendations Report, the International and Regional Human Rights Report, and the Section 184(3) Report.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 8 September 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/Commission) will be launching four reports that highlight human rights work and issues across the country. The reports are informed by the Commission's ongoing research, monitoring activities, and data received from organs of state.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Sunday, 7 September 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) unequivocally condemns the ongoing unlawful evictions carried out by municipalities, private security companies, and other state-sanctioned actors. These actions, often executed without court orders and in blatant disregard of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act 19 of 1998 (PIE), constitute a grave violation of the Constitution and a direct assault on the dignity of the most vulnerable in our society.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Saturday, 06 September 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) has issued subpoenas to the National Director-Generals of the Departments of Social Development, Treasury, Basic Education, Home Affairs, Health and the Eastern Cape office of the Premier, compelling them to appear before the Commission in terms of section 15(1)(c) and (d) of the South African Human Rights Commission Act 40 of 2013 (SAHRC Act).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Saturday, 06 September 2025

On Thursday, 04 September 2025, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) met with the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina and the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to discuss some of the systemic water challenges confronting the country.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 02 September 2025  

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/ the Commission) update on its investigative work regarding complaints against Open Chats Podcast hosts, Minister Gayton McKenzie, TikTok viral video and Knysna High School alleged incidences of hate speech and related matters.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 28 August 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) welcomes the judgment handed down yesterday, 27 August 2025, by the Western Cape Division of the Equality Court (Equality Court) in the consolidated matter of SAHRC and Dante van Wyk v Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) has issued a subpoena directing the Executive Mayor of Makana Local Municipality, Yandiswa Vara, and the Municipal Manager, Pumelelo Kate, to appear before the Commission in terms of section 15(1)(c) and (d) of the South African Human Rights Commission Act 40 of 2013 (SAHRC Act).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 20 August 2025                                                              

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission/), through its North West Provincial Office, will hold a subpoena hearing against the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (Department).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 15 August 2025  

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) is aware of offensive posts by Minister Gayton McKenzie ranging between 2011 and 2017 which have resurfaced on his X account on Saturday, 09 August 2025. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 15 August 2025  

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) is aware of offensive posts by Minister Gayton McKenzie ranging between 2011 and 2017 which have resurfaced on his X account on Saturday, 09 August 2025. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) will participate in a land rights case scheduled to be heard by the Land Claims Court of South Africa from 11 to 15 August 2025.  The SAHRC will make submissions on Thursday, 14 August 2025 on constitutional issues that have significant implications for land rights and traditional governance in South Africa.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Saturday, 09 August 2025

In marking 69 years since approximately 20,000 women confronted the wrath of the apartheid government and marched to the Union Buildings to protest against the pass laws, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) commemorate the 2025 National Women’s Day 2025 by paying tribute to the role being played by women in shaping society. Women have always been at the forefront of advancing the realisation of human rights, even in the pre democratic dispensation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 08 August 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) is aware of offensive remarks on Open Chats Podcast where hosts Mr Mthokozisi Methula and Ms Busisiwe Radebe were discussing the Coloured community.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) to brief the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs, on the contents of the inquiry report into the state of service delivery within municipalities in Mpumalanga Province.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 14 July 2025                                                                                                             

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) North West Provincial Office (NWPO) will be conducting subpoena hearings against several municipalities in the province, following sustained non-responsiveness to investigations conducted by the Commission.