10 January 2018

HUMAN rights violations related to race continue to bedevil South Africa’s efforts to eradicate inequality and discrimination, a trend analysis by the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) has revealed.
The report found that despite the Constitution and a plethora of anti-racism laws, racism remains endemic in South Africa.
Of 749 complaints received by the commission between 2015 and 2016, 505 were those related to race.

11 January 2018

On a clear‚ sunny morning in Durban Deep‚ a defunct gold mine on Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand gold reef‚ a group of five Zimbabwean informal miners‚ known as zama zamas‚ prepare to go underground. They test their torches‚ adjust their knee pads‚ pull balaclavas over their heads and pack meagre rations of white bread and biscuits into dust-covered backpacks.

11 January 2018

Johannesburg – The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) received more than 4 000 complaints between 2015 and 2016, with the right to equality being the violation complained of the most, according to its annual trends analysis report (ATAR) (see here - PDF).
Less than half of these complaints were accepted, with the remainder being rejected or referred.
The report revealed that in the 2015/2016 period, the commission received 749 complaints about equality violations, 505 of which were related to race.

11 January  2018

THERE has been a steady increase in the number of human rights complaints related to service delivery.
This is according to the Annual Trends Analysis report released by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) yesterday.
The report outlines statistics and data on human rights violations received during the 2015-2016 financial year.

12 January 2018

Durban - KwaZulu-Natal has registered 163 race-related complaints with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in the 2015/2016 financial year, coming second to Gauteng’s 183 cases.

12 January 2018

The North West province has recorded a high increase in the number of human rights violation complaints as compared to other provinces.

According to the South African Human Rights Commission’s report, the number of complaints received during the 2015/16 fiscal year increased by more than 300 from the year before that. By the end of 2016, the number stood at 514 while it was only 180 by the end of 2015.

13 January 2018

A video of a Cape Town man using the “K word” against a black woman is doing the rounds on social media.
A man could be seen arguing with the woman before threatening her.

16 January 2018

The group of black teachers from the Klipspruit West Secondary School in Eldorado Park who were on the receiving end from protesters who wanted them removed from what they deemed a “coloured school” last year were back at work on Monday‚ preparing for the year ahead.

17 January 2018

The Centre for Child Law says better planning by the Gauteng education department could have prevented the current backlog in schools‚ which has left more than 30‚000 pupils unplaced at the start of the academic year.
The province had in the past failed to plan properly to predict pupil numbers and calculate how many of them provincial schools could cater for‚ according to research done by the centre.

17 January 2018

The SA Students Congress (Sasco) and the National Health Education and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) have joined forces to shut down the University of SA‚ forcing potential students to abandon their applications and registrations at the university's Sunnyside campus in Pretoria on Wednesday.