06 August 2015

By Commissioner Shafie Ameermia, Commissioner responsible for Access to Justice & Housing
 
In a recent ruling by the Western Cape High Court, Judge Siraj Desai, noted that, “[t]he facts underpinning this application relate to the debt collection procedure employed by the micro-lending industry and give rise to significant disquiet, if not alarm.”

05 October 2015

By Deputy Chairperson Pregs Govender, SAHRC Commissioner responsible for Basic Services & Health Care

On October 3, the 20th anniversary of the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), we travelled to Xhora Mouth in the Eastern Cape to report back to the community that laid a complaint regarding access to emergency medical services, which led to the SAHRC hearing on emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape earlier this year.

28 August 2015

By Commissioner Janet Love, SAHRC Commissioner for Environment, Natural Resources & Rural Development; and Researcher Angela Kariuki
 
eGoli! The “Place of Gold”, the popular nickname adopted for Johannesburg in its formative years, is the economic hub of the country and the continent, generating a large percentage of South Africa’s GDP. The province in which it falls, Gauteng, is responsible for at least a quarter of the country’s total mineral production – the bulk of this being gold.

19 August 2015
 
By Dr Danny Titus, SAHRC Commissioner responsible for Human Rights and Law Enforcement & Prevention of Torture
 
At a summit on rural safety and security in 1998 our former president Mandela was quite clear when he referred to the immediate human suffering, the lack of security and stability in our rural and farming community. He referred to the serious disruption to our economy, the threat of reduced growth and production, loss of wages and profits, and in time unemployment. He was referring to the attacks and killings on farms. He continued to state that "the government deplores the cold blooded killings that have been taking place on farms," and that "killings on farms, and crimes in general, have been a feature of South African life for many decades."

Attention: Editors and Reporters
 
04 January 2016
 
The South African Human Rights Commission has noted with serious concern the alleged racist comments attributed to some people on social media.

15 March 2016

By Chairperson Lourence Mushwana, Commissioner responsible for Migration & Equality

As you know, the Commission is a constitutionally-enshrined body, first envisioned in the country’s interim Constitution and included in Chapter Nine of the final Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

24 April 2016

By Dr Danny Titus, SAHRC Commissioner responsible for Human Rights and Law Enforcement & Prevention of Torture

In 2015, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) adopted Guidlines on Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-Trial Detention (the Luanda Guidelines). The Luanda Guidelines outline legal measures for African Union States in order to strengthen national systems and practices focusing on arrest, police custody and pre-trial detention.

18th January 2016
ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission invites members of the media to a follow-up national investigative hearing into the Human Rights violations in South African Indigenous (Khoisan) Communities.
Members of the media are invited to attend and report about the proceedings of this hearing.

12th April 2016

Attention: Editor and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) would like to convey is condolences to the family and friends of Sikhosiphi (Bazooka) Rhadebe, the Chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, who was gunned down at his home on Tuesday, 22 March 2016. Mr. Rhadebe was a selfless human rights activist, who was murdered in the most cowardly way.

21 April 2016

By Advocate Shafie Ameermia, SAHRC Commissioner responsible for Access to Justice and Housing
 
As recent as September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where the leaders linked the concept of development with the notion that effective measures which ensure access to justice to all people and at all levels should be in place.