Editorial

29 September 2017

Rights activists are celebrating Wednesday's decision by the Cape Town High Court which opens the door to the disclosure of the sources of political party funding.

Following the recent service delivery protests in Eldorado Park and surrounding areas, allegations of racial tensions in the community and the disruption of schooling at Klipspruit West Secondary School, the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) will hold a public investigative hearing. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tuesday, 3 October 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission or the SAHRC) has marked with much concern the violence that permeates throughout South African society, including political violence that has the potential to threaten democratic processes within the country.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
27 September 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission in collaboration with Kgotla Ya Barolong Boo-Seleka, will be hosting Heritage Day commemorative engagement. The engagement will be hosted under the theme: RECLAIMING, RESTORING AND CELEBRATING OUR LIVING HERITAGE.
Heritage day is celebrated annually as a national public holiday on 24 September. On this day, South Africans across the spectrum are encouraged to celebrate their diverse cultural heritage, shared historical, linguistic, collective memory, beliefs, customs, traditions, rituals, indigenous knowledge systems, food, and  oral history.  

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Tuesday, 27 September 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and South Africa’s new Information Regulator are set to celebrate Universal Access to Information Day on Thursday, 28 September from 10am – 1pm at the Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg. The Open Democracy Advice Centre, a non-governmental organisation, is a part of these celebrations. Freedom of information is a fundamental right in South Africa, and a right on which transparency, accountability, public participation and the realisation of other rights are heavily dependent.

26 September 2017

Cape Town - The Cape Town city council says a bill of more than R1 million being disputed by a Schaapkraal family is not historical debt but their own.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

22 September 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC or Commission) condemns the ongoing abuse of children and violations of children’s rights being brought to the public’s attention through media reports, and also through complaints being lodged with the SAHRC.

Attention: Editors

Thursday, September 21, 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission (“the SAHRC” or ‘the Commission’) would like to correct and clarify media reports on its finding in the matter brought to the Commission by Solidarity on South African Airways’ (SAA) Cadet Pilot Development Programme (CPDP).

20 September 2017

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The SAHRC Gauteng Provincial Office will be hosting a media networking session on 21 September 2017 at the SAHRC Headquarters.

18 September 2017

Gauteng police have encouraged the witnesses to lay a charge of crimen injuria against the man.

Video footage posted on Twitter showing a drunk man urinating on a sleeping parking attendant in Hatfield, Pretoria, at the weekend prompted a shocked response from users, who also questioned the humanity of South Africans.