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18 August 2017

Johannesburg - Former ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane was found guilty of hate speech, in the South Gauteng High Court on Friday.
18 August 2017

He said the biggest challenge is poor planning of human resources.

KwaZulu-Natal’s dysfunctional public health department can be blamed on a systematic breakdown of core functions, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
18 August 2017

Journalist Jon Qwelane will have to publicly apologise to the LGBTI community. This comes after he was found guilty of hate speech in the Johannesburg High Court.
18 August 2017

Cape Town - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Friday hailed the ruling in the high court in Johannesburg declaring a 2008 anti-gay newspaper column by former SA ambassador to Uganda, Jon Qwelane, as hate speech as a victory for the protection of the rights of members of the LGBTI community.
18 August 2017

The high court on Friday found the statements Qwelane made in his July 2008 column‚ titled "Call me names‚ but gay is not ok"‚ constitute hate speech.
18 August 2017

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has acknowledged that the crisis at health institutions in KwaZulu-Natal is caused by lack of leadership and poor management.
18 August 2017

Human Rights Commission welcomes ruling on former SA diplomat and homophobe Jon Qwelane
18 August 2017

In what has been hailed as a victory for the country’s LGBTI communities, the Johannesburg High Court today delivered a ruling declaring comments made by Jon Qwelane in a 2009 column in Sunday Sun as hate speech.
18 August 2017

Johannesburg – The hate speech verdict against Jon Qwelane will ensure that freedom of expression is not used as a veil for hate speech, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Friday.
18 August 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission says freedom of speech must be balanced with the right to dignity.

Recently, newspapers carried an article about a 44-year old gender activist who was raped behind some bushes at night. Most readers likely skipped over it and turned to the sports pages. SA needs a concrete plan to stop gender violence

17 August 2017

Perhaps partly because of the familiarity of the scenario, or partly to protect the reader from yet another story about “bad and violent things” happening in South Africa.
17 August 2017

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will on Friday be meeting with KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu and other relevant stakeholders to discuss the oncology crisis in the province.
16 August 2017

The DA can reveal that the Department of Health spends close to R500 million to treat more than 14 000 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) each year.
16 August 2017

Cape Town - Deaths in police custody continue, with official statistics showing that 266 people died in detention during the last financial year.
16 August 2017

Cape Town - Deaths in police custody continue, with official statistics showing that 266 people died in detention during the last financial year.
‘Patient waiting time will be reduced to less than a month within the next six months’

15 August 2017

NGWELEZANA Hospital has opened an oncology clinic which is geared to provide full treatment and care to cancer patients locally.
13 August 2017

Cape Town - The DA on Sunday said it would report Higher Education deputy minister Mduduzi Manana to the Commission for Gender Equality following allegations of mistreatment by female staff members in his department.
13 August 2017

Footage of the assault circulated on social media this week.

DURBAN - The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department says it will launch an independent probe into the brutal attack of a girl at Siyathuthuka Secondary School.
13 August 2017

Cape Town - The DA on Sunday said it would report Higher Education deputy minister Mduduzi Manana to the Commission for Gender Equality following allegations of mistreatment by female staff members in his department.
13 August 2017

The education system has faced many obstacles over the past few years.

From challenges regarding language as a medium of instruction and admission procedures that perpetuate discrimination and inequality, to codes of conduct that violate the fundamental principles of our Constitution.

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