Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 04 February 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province, together with Commissioner Aseza Gungubele, the Commissioner responsible for Migration, Climate Justice, and Human Settlements, will conduct targeted monitoring in correctional facilities and informal settlements in the Frances Baard District Municipality, covering Kimberley and surrounding areas.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will launch a provincial human rights awareness campaign from 03 to 09 February 2025.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Northern Cape Provincial Office will conduct a stakeholder engagement focused on migration trends and issues affecting migrants in the Northern Cape Province.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 31 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) will be convening a National Investigative Inquiry into the Impact of Load Reduction on Human Rights (national investigative inquiry).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

29 January 2025 marks one year since the release of the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/Commission) July Unrest Report, ‘July’s People’, the SAHRC sought to determine the progress made on two of the report’s recommendations in particular.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will host a strategic stakeholder engagement with the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature to strengthen working relationship between the two institutions.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) will be convening an investigative inquiry into scholar transport challenges in the North West. In terms of section 184(2) of the Constitution, the Commission has the power to investigate and report on the observance of human rights and take steps to secure appropriate redress where human rights have been violated. To give effect to these powers, in terms of section 15 (1) (b) of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Act, 40 of 2013,  the Commission may require from any person such particulars and information as may be reasonably necessary in connection with any investigation. In terms of Chapter 8 of the Commission’s Complaints Handling Procedures, the Commission may conduct hearings to solicit particulars and information required in connection with an investigation.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Following the release of its KwaZulu Natal Water Inquiry Report in September 2023, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) is continuing with the programme to visit District Municipalities to monitor progress on the implementation of its recommendations, and to assess the state of human rights in the respective regions.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 17 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be conducting monitoring during the schools reopening for the 2025 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

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) has learned with grave sadness of the death of another child after being hit by a stray bullet in what is believed to be a gang-related shooting in the Cape Flats, Western Cape.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

As the 2025 school year commences, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) would like to wish all learners, educators, parents and other stakeholders involved in advancing the realisation of the right to education a successful academic year ahead. The Commission further wishes to congratulate all matriculants and educators on achieving the highest matric pass rate since the dawn of democracy. May this coming academic year see even higher pass rates.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 9 JANUARY 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/Commission) has noted media reports regarding the completion of the first phase of the Magalies Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant by the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. It is reported that water supplied from the Magalies Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant is safe for consumption.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 09 January 2025

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) confirms that it has received complaints and has noted the various social media posts related to the alleged racist incident which took place during a flight from Durban to Cape Town on 26 December 2024.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) takes this opportunity to reflect on significant human rights issues in 2024, integral to its ongoing constitutional mandate. The Commission expresses deep concern that despite the concerted efforts of various stakeholders to foster the full realisation of human rights, considerable challenges remain entrenched in society.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 23 December 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) has written to the National Commissioner, Lt. Gen. Fannie Masemola, of the South African Police Service to express its deep concern over the number of human rights complaints that it continues to receive in respect of the arrest of adult private users, possessors and cultivators of cannabis – particularly within the Rastafari community.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Sunday, 22 December 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) has noted the saddening reports of the burning of the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court in the Western Cape on Saturday night, 21 December 2024.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 20 December 2024

On Thursday, 20 December 2024, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) hosted the first launch of the Intersex Children: Guide for Parents Pamphlet. The SAHRC note that the rights of intersex persons, particularly children, are perpetually overlooked. In line with its constitutional mandate to promote, protect, and monitor the observance of human rights, the Commission augment the promoton of the rights of intersex persons, beginning at the time of birth.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 19 December 2024

On Tuesday, 18 December 2024, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission), through the Office of Commissioner Madlingozi, together with the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Office (KZNPO), met with the KwaZulu Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, supported by the KZN South Africa Police Service (SAPS) Senior Management to discuss a range of human rights issues.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) has exercised its authority as granted by section 15 of the SAHRC Act, in issuing a subpoena against the Mpumalanga Department of Human Settlements. This action is prompted by their non-responsiveness to issues relating to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses and multiple complaints lodged against the Department.

On 17 December 2024, the Makhanda High Court delivered a judgment affirming that the provision of scholar transport is a mandatory and integral component of the right to education. The Court ruled that the government of South Africa is obligated to provide scholar transport to learners in the Eastern Cape, emphasising the immediate realisation of the right to basic education as enshrined in Section 29(1) of the Constitution. The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission), acting as amicus curiae, contributed expert insights and advocated for the protection of the right to education, particularly in addressing systemic human rights violations affecting vulnerable communities.