25 November 2022

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has registered a complaint about a racist "pit bull rant" voice recording circulating online.

The commission's spokesperson, Wisani Baloyi, told News24 the Gauteng branch would investigate.

"Identification of the person behind the voice note is part of the internal complaints handling mechanism, which cannot be divulged at the moment."

25 November 2022

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has registered a complaint about a racist "pit bull rant" voice recording circulating online.

The commission's spokesperson, Wisani Baloyi, told News24 the Gauteng branch would investigate.

"Identification of the person behind the voice note is part of the internal complaints handling mechanism, which cannot be divulged at the moment."

24 November 2022

The SA Human Rights Commission is assessing the origins of an audio clip in which a white woman could be heard referring to black people as rapists and thieves and calling for them to be killed.

Commission spokesperson Wisani Baloyi said on Thursday that the body does not know the identity of the woman at this stage.   

22 November 2022

Durban – The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it has planned to meet with the DA next week to address questions around its role in responding to KZN floods and the water and sanitation crisis.

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal took the commission to task last month and picketed outside the SAHRC Durban offices to demand a response to what it has dubbed “the human rights crisis in the province”.

15 November 2022


Cape Town - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says an investigation involving the EFF and its leader, Julius Malema, is ongoing and has not been concluded.

In a statement on Monday, the commission said it wanted to correct “certain misapprehensions held and widely expressed by the EFF and Malema” on the matter.

“The allegations, by the EFF and Mr Malema, that the commission has made adverse findings against them are incorrect. The commission has not conducted an investigation as contemplated by the SAHRC Act and, by extension, has not made any findings regarding this matter,” the SAHRC said.

10 November 2022

"We are not caving in; we are given two options which is to investigate or take the matter to court," says the SA Human Rights Commission, which maintains that "it is very clear that what they did incite violence, incite harm, and it propagated hatred."

Bongani Bingwa spoke to Advocate Bongani Majola - Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has denied being afraid of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and its leader, Julius Malema.

10 November 2022

Commission asks party to retract statements within 10 days

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has threatened to drag the EFF and its leader Julius Malema to court should they fail to retract statements made during the party’s Western Cape people’s assembly last month.

The commission’s acting spokesperson, Wisani Baloyi, said they received complaints relating to utterances made by party leader Julius Malema and posters that were held by members during the gathering on October 16.

10 November 2022

Durban – EFF leader Julius Malema has been given 10 days to retract statements made during a recent rally in the Western Cape.

The South African Human Rights Commission said it had served Malema and the EFF with a written notice that if they did not retract and apologise for the prima facie unlawful statements, as well as give the appropriate undertakings to desist from further promotion of hatred and violence on any ground, the Commission would proceed to the Equality Court for relief.

2 November 2022

Responding to the complaints, the SAHRC through its KZN provincial office (KZNPO) said it has been monitoring what's happening with a view to protecting the rights of flood victims.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it is monitoring what’s happening to the April flood victims in KwaZulu-Natal to protect their rights.

This comes after the DA staged a protest outside the SAHRC’s Durban offices on Monday morning, to bring attention to the plight of the thousands of KwaZulu-Natal residents who were left homeless, saying the SAHRC has turned a blind eye to the inhumane conditions under which the victims of the April floods live.

6 December 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) today confirmed that they had interactions with both national and certain provincial structures from KwaZulu- Natal and Gauteng of the Democratic Alliance (DA).

The SAHRC said the party lodged a complaint on October 31 with the Gauteng provincial office of the SAHRC, complaining of the lack of access to water for residents in the Gauteng province.