Attention: Editors and Reporters

18 October 2022

Children on the move - migrant children, children refugees, unaccompanied and separated migrant children continue to face discrimination in South Africa. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), through its various monitoring activities, has observed that children on the move are sometimes subjected to migrant law enforcement detention despite the known negative implications of detention on child development and wellbeing.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

17 October 2022

The development and launch of the Commission’s Social Harmony National Effort (SHiNE) initiative intended to deal with the myriad of social and economic challenges faced by the country which are eclipsed only by the levels of inequality and disharmony in the country as a whole. The aim of SHiNE is to commit every South African to reflecting on and acting in small but important ways to develop respect and harmony in our homes and among the diversities that exist in our midst.

Date: 17 October 2022  

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in the Free State Province will be conducting a stakeholder engagement with the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, Department of Rural and Land Reform, and Marena A Makholokoeng in the Harrismith. The stakeholder engagement will be focusing on land and food security. South Africa has about 17 million individuals that are experiencing inadequate to severely inadequate access to land and food security (Stats SA, GHS 2020).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
17 October 202

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) has noted a systemic issue in the manner in which the South African Police Services (SAPS), City of Cape Town Law Enforcement and Private Security Companies conduct themselves during evictions of unlawful occupiers and interactions with homeless persons in the Western Cape.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

16 October 2022

The media has a substantive role to play in society in disseminating and publishing information as well as educating and entertaining the public. Consequently, the media has a mandate in shaping the views and perceptions of communities on any given topic, whether of national importance or personal enjoyment.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
14 October 2022

In a significant move towards improving rights realization and protection within the province of the Eastern Cape and South Africa as a whole, the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) in the Eastern Cape will be signing Memoranda of Understanding with all the universities within the Province, namely Walter Sisulu, Rhodes, Fort Hare as well as Nelson Mandela Universities. This will occur during a high level engagement on the 17th of October 2022, in Gqeberha, which will be led by the Commission’s National Deputy Chairperson, Commissioner Fatima Chohan, and supported by the area focus Commissioner, Adv. Andre Gaum.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

14 October 2022

Over the years, the Commission in the North West has received a few complaints and enquiries relating to the eviction of persons and the demolition of such persons’ homes and properties pursuant to eviction and demolition orders issued by the Royal Bafokeng Traditional Court.
Historically, the Commission addressed such complaints and enquiries by referring the affected persons to Legal Aid South Africa for further assistance. However, noting that the Commission continues to receive such complaints, it believes these complaints should be addressed at a more systemic level, noting the impact of evictions on the affected persons and their families.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

13 October 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng provincial office (GPO) will visit Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, on 13 October 2022.

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital is a large central accredited general hospital in the province of Gauteng, that also serves as a referral hospital for a number of hospitals in the republic.

Date: 10 October 2022 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC’s North West Provincial Office received a complaint concerning the violation of the rights of the farm dwellers at Straatsdrift farms in Groot Marico under the jurisdiction of Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality. The human rights challenges raised involve, among others, shortage of water; lack of proper sanitation and healthcare services; inadequate housing; lack of police visibility; abuse of labourers’ rights and lack of basic municipality services at the Straatsdrift farms.

27 September 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission on Tuesday launched an initiative called the Social Harmony National Effort at the Freedom Park Heritage Museum in Tshwane.

Dignity, harmony, healing and social inclusion have become the pillars on which people globally are rallying to rebuild… We have seen how — despite poverty, inequality and violence — many communities have been able to live the philosophy of Ubuntu,” said SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) CEO, Chantal Kissoon, at the launch of the Social Harmony National Effort (SHiNE).