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Attention: Editors and Reporters
In executing its mandate, the South African Human Rights Commission (The Commission) is constantly creating informal partnerships with community-based organisations and civil society organisations to act as the Commission’s primary point of entry in various local communities where the Commission is not present. A number of factors work in the favour of these organisations and structures as they are located in the areas where people live, speak the same language and are known and trusted by the members of the communities where they are located; are knowledgeable about local conditions and know the history and the needs of the local communities and are keen to contribute to the work of the Commission.
25 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be conducting an Equality Workshop for Spur in Potchefstroom. The workshop is aimed at capacitating workers on the right to equality.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission, Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) working in partnership with the Eastern Cape Education Department ,Walter Sisulu University and Fort Hare University, will conduct workshops for schools in the Amathole East and West Districts in preparation of the moot court programme oral rounds to be held on 10 September 2022.
24 August 2022
The Eastern Cape Provincial Office will conduct a human rights champion workshop on Wednesday, 24 August 2022. The identified human rights champions will be empowered on the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission and how to be champions for human rights.
Date: 23 August 2022
On Thursday, 25 August 2022, the South African Human Rights Commission’s Gauteng Provincial Office will host a stakeholder engagement on the notion of occupational health and safety as a human right.
23 August 2022
The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities on human rights and the work of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) is a Constitutional body, established to support constitutional democracy in terms of Section 181 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Constitution). Section 184(1) (b) of the Constitution obliges the Commission to promote the protection of human rights and monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic of South Africa.
23 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission KwaZulu Natal provincial office (KZNPO) in partnership with the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network will host a roundtable discussion on the special situation regarding women human rights defenders in KwaZulu Natal, to commemorate women’s month.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) has learnt of the passing of Mr Lindokuhle Mnguni, the Chairperson of eKhenana Community and a leader within the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement, a social movement representing the interests of shack dwellers in South Africa. According to reports, Mr Lindokuhle Mnguni died on Saturday, 20th August 2022, at his home in eKhenana, Cato Manor Durban. Two armed men are alleged to have shot the activist to death.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
22 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Eastern Cape provincial office will be embarking on various monitoring activities in Alfred Nzo and O.R. Tambo Districts. Section 184 (1) (c) of the South African Constitution 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 an opportunity for the Commission to ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
19 August 2022
On 17 August, the Times Online published an article that implied that the MEC of Education in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, was not opposed to the use of corporal punishment in schools to enforce discipline. If these insinuations by the Times Live report are indeed accurate, the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) would be concerned, in light of the right to bodily and psychological integrity and the right not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman and degrading manner and particularly given the lack of agency that learners have and the extremely violent society in which we live.
19 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission will be conducting an Equality Workshop for MJ Labs. The workshop is aimed at capacitating workers on the right to equality and the rights of people living with disabilities.
18 August 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Free State provincial office in partnership with the Free State Department of Education, University of the Free State and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will be conducting a provincial workshop for schools as a preparation for the National Schools Moot Court Competition.
18 AUGUST 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission will be conducting a Disability and Equality Workshop for Gibela Rail Transport Consortium. The workshop is aimed at capacitating workers on the right to equality and the rights of people living with disabilities.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
15 August 2022
The SAHRC Western Cape provincial office will this week be embarking on various monitoring and advocacy activities in the Overberg District Municipality. Section 184 (1) (c) of the South African Constitution 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 ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld in the Republic.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission’s (“the Commission”) KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Inquiry on access to water will commence on Monday, 15 August 2022 and will continue until Friday, 19 August 2022.
12 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission will be hosting a virtual Moot Court preparatory workshop aimed at preparing learners from the participating schools, for their provincial moot court oral rounds.
09 August 2022
Commissioner Philile Ntuli of the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is conducting a provincial visit in the KwaZulu Natal Province from 10 to 12 August 2022.
Following the floods disaster that affected the KwaZulu Natal Province in April 2022, the Commission has conducted a series of monitoring interventions to assess the human rights impact thereof. The monitoring has been geared towards ensuring that the response of the KwaZulu Natal Government to the disaster is based on a human rights approach.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 09 August 2022
09 August 2022 marks 66 years since the 1956 march that saw about 20 000 women descend on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the introduction of an apartheid pass law which was aimed at restricting black women’s movement in urban areas. The heroic act of defiance led by struggle icons such as Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams saw scores of women from across the country converge at the Union Buildings to deliver a petition containing more than 100,000 signatures calling for the end of this unjust act.
7 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) wishes to inform the media and members of the public that Advocate Tseliso Thipanyane is no longer employed by the Commission. His contract as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Commission expired on 31 May 2022.
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