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SAHRC

SAHRC

20 June 2022

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will visit Qhumanco village in Cofimvaba after reports of tensions between South Africans and foreigners in the area.

23 June 2022

This is in a bid to address racial and other social conflicts.

JOHANNESBURG - With the public hearings into the July unrest now concluded, South African Human Rights Commissioner Andre Guam has announced that the Chapter 9 institution is working with the Department of Education to develop a social cohesion curriculum.
23 June 2022

The Commission will provide human rights sensitisation workshops after investigations have been concluded.

Following the uproar after Mogale City Public Safety personnel burned and confiscated blankets, clothes and other belongings from the homeless in Mogale City, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) became involved.
28 June 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission will investigate the deaths 21 minors at the Enyobeni tavern in East London.

The youngsters died in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The SAHRC believes the children's best interests were not upheld at the Tavern.
15 June 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Gauteng has called for the protection of public servants who are whistleblowers.

This call follows the visit by the commission to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child hospital on Tuesday in Johannesburg, after Dr Tim De Maayer was reinstated.
13 June 2022

A statement released on Monday by the South African Social Security Agency said ‘payments for the new cycle of the Covid-19 SRD grant (from April 2022) will be paid as from mid-June 2022. Sassa will continue clearing outstanding payments from the previous cycle as and when the bank details are confirmed’.
17 May 2022

Stellenbosch University senior director of student affairs Choice Makhetha says the perpetrator has been removed from campus as the investigation starts.
13 June 2022

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wants the troubled Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg, which is a regional hospital, reclassified as a tertiary hospital.

13 June 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission paid the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg a visit on Monday following the suspension of a whistleblower doctor.
1 June 2022

CAPE TOWN - The Human Rights Commission has given Stellenbosch University until 3 June to provide its findings into two alleged incidents of racism at the institution.

Commissioner André Gaum has confirmed that one of the incidents involves Babalo Ndwayana who recorded Theuns du Toit urinating on his belongings.

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The Human Rights Commission is the national institution established to support constitutional democracy. It is committed to promote respect for, observance of and protection of human rights for everyone without fear or favour.

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