Stellenbosch University violated the rights of Afrikaans-speaking students when it said they could only speak English in certain residences during their welcoming period in 2021. This was the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) finding after a complaint by DA leader John Steenhuisen and the party’s constituency head for Stellenbosch,[…]
LOCAL The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has described as horrific and deplorable, utterances made by a Benoni woman about black people, calling them rapists and thieves and that they should be banned and killed. Belinda Magor, whose voice note went viral on social media, made the comments while[…]
LOCAL he South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has kicked off its second round of sittings on allegations of law enforcement brutality during land evictions in the Western Cape. Commissioner Chris Nissen says they have received several complaints in the Southern Cape and Cape Town on allegations of excessive force being[…]
LOCAL The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in the Free State says it is shocked about the alleged reports at the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein that workers are compelled to strip naked in front of their colleagues. The alleged disgusting gestures include everyone, even the opposite gender, as part[…]
LOCAL The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it is investigating the demolition of over 150 homes in Mahobieskraal, near Sun City in the North West. Families were evicted and their houses demolished following a court order that the Bapolomiti Communal Property Association had obtained. The SAHRC says this[…]
Academics, entrepreneurs, religious and civil society formations say social cohesion and nation-building should form part of the school curriculum. They say without it there is a serious threat to the country’s economic stability. The Social Cohesion Group was the last organisation to give oral evidence at the Human Rights Commission’s[…]
The court battle over illegal land invasion in the Western Cape is ongoing. The Human Rights Commission and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have taken the City of Cape Town to court over evictions, following the controversial eviction of Khayelitsha resident Bulelani Qolani in June last year. The provincial government[…]
NATIONAL The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will launch an investigation into the violence that swept across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July. Among other things, the commission said on Friday it would examine the effectiveness of the state, particularly the police and security cluster as a whole, in maintaining public[…]
The Human Rights Commission says it has served the Western Cape Education Department with an allegations notice over the racism claims at Brackenfell High School in Cape Town. Violent clashes erupted outside the school last Friday as hundreds of EFF supporters protested against alleged racism at the school. Police used[…]
South Africa has lost a “giant’ with the death of South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) deputy chairperson Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal Jana on Saturday, the SAHRC said in paying tribute to the anti-apartheid struggle lawyer. “South Africa has lost a giant who sacrificed herself selflessly for us all to enjoy[…]
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