09 September 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The National Schools Moot Court Competition was established in 2011 as a joint project of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, the Department of Basic Education, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the Foundation for Human Rights. In 2019 the South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) took over the competition as its flagship human rights advocacy project and successfully implemented same.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

08 September 2022

Background

Since the first democratic elections in South Africa held in 1994, the door towards accessing public schools has been unlocked for all learners in accordance with non-discriminatory principles. The provision of education progressed from serving the interests of a white minority to serving the interests of all South Africans. The rights of learners to equal, non-discriminatory schooling were enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the South African Schools Act.  

08 September 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission), Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) will host a stakeholder engagement with the MSF Southern Africa to elaborate on the mandate and powers of the Commission in relation to promoting, monitoring and providing redress when human rights violations occur.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

7 September 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission working in partnership with the Eastern Cape Education Department, Walter Sisulu University and Fort Hare University, will host the provincial rounds of the national schools moot court competition (NSMCC) this weekend.  The provincial oral rounds consist of ten (10) participating schools with the aim of selecting a provincial team of four (4) successful schools to represent the Eastern Cape at the national rounds to be held in Gauteng at the Constitutional Court later this year.

05 August 2022


The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it is investigating the demolition of over 150 homes in Mahobieskraal, near Sun City in the North West.

Families were evicted and their houses were demolished following a court order that the Bapolomiti Communal Property Association had obtained.

5 August 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission says it will approach government to discuss possible solutions around illegal mining activities.

Illegal miners, commonly referred to as zama zamas, have been in the spotlight since the gang rape of eight women at a mine dump in Krugersdorp in Gauteng.

The SAHRC reported that studies and statistics indicated that many children in the province live in abject poverty and as a result are malnourished.

8 Aug 2022

A significant number of children across the Eastern Cape, who are living in abject poverty, are dying from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) caused by hunger.

08 Aug 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission in the Eastern Cape started an inquiry into complaints of severe malnutrition amongst children in the province.

The Inquiry started on Monday in East London and will run through to Thursday.

10 August 2022

Climate change, poverty and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are some of the factors leading to increased reports of childhood malnutrition and starvation in the Eastern Cape.

These were some of the submissions made at the South African Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) inquiry into child malnutrition in the province.

15 August 2022

The South African Human Right Commission's inquiry into water access in KwaZulu-Natal kicked off in Umhlanga on Monday.

Chairperson of the Tongaat Civic Association, Don Perumall, said Monday marked 126 days of residents not having running water in their taps.

He believes that Tongaat has been sidelined because of its racial make-up.