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5 February 2018

Debate on the film Inxeba remained contentious yesterday, with the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA (Contralesa) holding urgent talks on the film in the Eastern Cape.
04 February 2018

DURBAN - A DURBAN family still reeling from the death of their father plan to report his ordeal to the South African Human Rights Commission because of the inhumane treatment he received at a Durban hospital.
Hoosen Noor Mahomed, 60, who shared his story with the Sunday Tribune Herald, last week, about how he was allegedly refused treatment at Addington Hospital, died on January 27, a few days after the interview.
04 February 2018

The film ‘Inxeba’ (The Wound) was “the best performing film” at the seven movie sites where it played on Friday.
That’s according to Helen Kuun, the managing director of Indigenous FilmDistribution, the company releasing the film in South Africa.
Kuun was reacting to a statement by the executive director of Man and Boy Foundation, Nkululeko Nxesi, who told ANN7 that “99%” of the South African population are against the movie, which has already won 19 awards at 44 festivals in 25 countries, including South Africa.
02 February 2018

Cape Town - Responding to violent threats against the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound) and its cast, the producers have laid complaints with the South African Human Rights Commission and the Commission for Gender Equality.
31 January 2018

The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department has decided to partner with private hospitals and specialists to address the oncology crisis in the province, department head Dr Musa Gumede said on Tuesday
“We’ve decided to engage in private/public partnerships since we can’t get specialists to work full-time in public hospitals,” said Gumede.
He was speaking at a stakeholder and media breakfast in Durban on Tuesday morning.
Gumede said the department was also engaging with the SA Human’s Rights Commission (SAHRC) on the matter on a fortnightly basis, since the Democratic Alliance’s member of provincial legislature Dr Imraan Keeka had complained to the commission about the collapse of oncology services in KZN.
“There has been a team from the department, which consists of senior members of management, including a legal expert, working on this matter,” he said.
31 January 2018

A medical surgery in Mokopane, Limpopo, has come under fire from the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for alleged racism, breaching a number of medical ethics codes. SAHRC provincial manager Victor Mavhidula is quoted in News24 as saying that the commission had visited the surgery and found that patients were segregated upon entry, and treated differently based on race.
30 January 2018

The commission found he treated black patients in a different room from to his white patients and made them use separate bathrooms.

The Health Department in Limpopo says it’s confident an investigation by the South African Human Rights Commissio n (SAHRC) into alleged racism by a Mokopane doctor will be done diligently.
30 January 2018

Durban - Umgeni Water said on Monday there was no danger of KwaZulu-Natal running out of water in the near term but responsible consumer behaviour was vital if the province was to achieve water security.

While KZN was still recovering from the devastating drought which is now threatening to run Cape Town taps completely dry, KZN dam levels are between 63% and 114%.
30 January 2018

The Congress of South African Trade Unions is concerned by the deteriorating situation and the intensity of violent armed conflict between organised groups of illegal miners in many areas of the country, where illegal mining is taking place. The reports of gang violence and of armed gangs shooting at the police should send the alarm bells ringing to our authorities. The federation has repeatedly called for action to from our government to deal with this unremitting deaths of artisanal miners all across the country.
30 January 2018

The current drought gripping the south-western parts of South Africa started as far back as the end of the 2015 summer when the rains expected to fall during the 2016 and 2017 winter seasons did not arrive.
This situation has been exacerbated by the fact that at the same time‚ the demand for water in the Western Cape Province increased because of fairly rapid economic and population growth.
29 January 2018

IOL News reports that a teacher union has turned to the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), asking that it probe complaints of hate speech and racism emanating from protests at the Hoërskool Overvaal. 
29 January 2018

THE University of the Witwatersrand is investigating an alleged racist incident following social media posts that one of the lecturers referred to protesting workers as “monkeys”.
28 January 2018

The Western Cape is currently experiencing its worse drought in more than 100 years.
At a planned briefing scheduled for later on Sunday, the Water and Sanitation Department will reveal how it plans to manage day zero and beyond.
28 January 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission says that far from the situation reported following a media conference by DA leader Mmusi Maimane on Wednesday‚ it can confirm that the City of Cape Town does indeed have a water plan.
27 January 2017

Recriminations and blame-shifting do not inspire confidence in our leaders and this confidence will be needed in the coming months, says SAHRC spokesperson.

The South African Human Rights Commission has been monitoring the water crisis unfolding in the City of Cape Town, having received complaints from various individuals and organisations regarding the issue.
27 January 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has been monitoring the water crisis unfolding in the City of Cape Town and has received complaints from various individuals and organisations regarding the issue, the commission said on Saturday.
"The complaints express the concerns which all Capetonians share," The SAHRC said in a statement.
27 January 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is calling on all spheres of government to help deal with the water crisis.

The commission says it's monitoring the situation to ensure the City of Cape Town and other supporting parties work together.
The arrival of Day Zero is imminent.
26 January 2018

A medical surgery in Mokopane, Limpopo, has come under fire from the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for alleged racism breaching a number of medical ethics codes….
SAHRC provincial manager Victor Mavhidula told News24 that the commission had visited the surgery and found that patients were segregated upon entry, and treated differently based on race.
26 January 2018

A white medical practitioner in Mokopane, Limpopo, who is under investigation for racism this week acceded to racially divided consultation rooms at his practice.
26 January 2018

A white medical practitioner in Mokopane, Limpopo, who is under investigation for racism this week acceded to racially divided consultation rooms at his practice.
This was after an in loco inspection of the doctor's premises by the South African Human Rights Commission this week.
The commission, which started its investigation into the allegations of racism at the doctor's place last month, said their investigation confirmed the racism complaints.

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