| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.06.2024 | ‘Double standards’: Supporters donate R50k to Renaldo Gouws | A Backabuddy fundraising campaign has raised almost R50 000 for suspended DA MP Renaldo Gouws.
Images via Backabuddy
A group of Renaldo Gouws supporters have pledged nearly R50 000 on Backabuddy towards his legal bills after the South Afric... |
| 21.06.2024 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 21 June | The DA has suspended MP Renaldo Gouws over a racist video from his past.
Images via X: @renaldogouws
We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Friday, 21 June.
On Wednesday, 19 June, a clip – filmed in 2010 – emerge... |
| 20.06.2024 | SAHRC takes Renaldo Gouws to court for racist remarks | SAHRC takes Renaldo Gouws to court for racist remarks. Image: X/@RenaldoGouws
Today, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will initiate proceedings at the Equality Court in Gqeberha against Renaldo Gouws, a Member of Parliament... |
| 23.05.2024 | July Unrest 2.0? Warning issued over possible MK Party protests | MK Party leader Jacob Zuma and his daughter Duduzile. Image: @themankosi
FirstRand has confirmed that it issued a memo warning of possible nationwide protests by the Jacob Zuma-led uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
“KwaZulu-Natal (and to a lesse... |
| 20.05.2024 | Phoenix residents offer votes for EFF in exchange for land | Give us land, we will vote for you, Phoenix residents tell Malema. Image: @EFFSouthAfrica.
At a community meeting held in Phoenix, located North West of eThekwini, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was endorsed by attende... |
| 03.04.2024 | Gauteng Education: There’s a need to investigate Curro’s value system | The Gauteng Department of Education has weighed in on the latest incident at Curro Holdings. Image: Pixabay.
The Gauteng Department of Education says there is an urgent need to investigate the constitutionality of Curro Holding’s value syst... |
| 25.03.2024 | South Africa's School Holidays and Human Rights Cases | Pupils in South Africa are enjoying their Easter holidays, but when do they end? The second term starts on April 3, with 52 days ahead. Meanwhile, Human Rights Day on March 21 sheds light on important cases handled by the SAHRC. From Steve ... |
| 20.03.2024 | Human Rights Day: South Africa’s most famous SAHRC cases | SAHRC: ‘LGBTIQ+ people are satanic’ post not hate speech. Photo: Mambaonline
Human Rights Day is happening on 21 March.
We have a right to water, housing, and fair treatment.
Anyone who violates your rights could be charged.
What are some o... |
| 06.03.2024 | March is Human Rights Month, says SA Government | Human Rights Day commemorating Sharpeville massacre
Photo source: Flickr
March is Human Rights Month, says the South African Government.
They were accompanied by Ministers Ronald Lamola and Zizi Kodwa, representing government’s role in prot... |
| 19.02.2024 | STRONG resistance: NHI is “unconstitutional” | The NHI could infringe on people’s rights. Image (slightly adapted) by flickr
Several SA business groups said that the NHI Bill is unconstitutional. The business groups sent warnings to president Ramaphosa stipulating issues that could aris... |
| 29.01.2024 | 2021 July: ‘High-level officials ignored early-warning signs’ | The 2021 July unrest early-warning signs were disregarded by top security and intelligence officials says the SAHRC. Image: The South African
Top-level security and intelligence officials disregarded early warning signs of the 2021 July Unr... |
| 29.01.2024 | 2021 July Unrest ‘well-orchestrated’ says SAHRC | The 2021 July unrest was orchestrated to destabilise the economy. Image: The South African
The 2021 July Unrest, which resulted in the widespread looting and destruction of property in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng provinces, was “well-or... |
| 27.11.2023 | Department of Basic Education extending teaching in African languages | Department of Basic Education extending teaching in African languages
Image via Pexels
Currently, learners are taught in their mother tongue until the end of Grade 3 and then switch to English as medium of instruction from Grade 4.
POLICY C... |
| 31.10.2023 | Hofmeyr and son Devon HUNTING ANIMALS in 2024! [Watch] | Steve Hofmeyr’s son Devon has confronted Minister of Police Bheki Cele.
Images via Facebook: @devonhofmeyr
Controversial South African singer Steve Hofmeyr and his son (Devon) will be hunting South Africa’s animals in 2024.
Hofmeyr and son ... |
| 19.09.2023 | DA to tackle Lindiwe Zulu over grants debacle | Lindiwe Zulu. Image: GCIS
The Democratic Alliance will lodge an urgent complaint at the South African Human Rights Commission on Tuesday against minister of social development Lindiwe Zulu, the social development department, the South Afric... |
| 06.07.2023 | COSATU STRIKE: Here is a list of their demands | cosatu members embarking in a national strike. Image: @_cosatu
12 venues across all nine provinces turned a sea of red today as Cosatu embarked on a national day of actions with marches around the country.
CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLES BY APH... |
| 06.06.2023 | DA requests probe into pregnant migrants forced to pay bribes | Nurses at Tambo Memorial Hospital accused of extortion. Photo: Pixabay.com
The DA says it will be requesting an investigation into the alleged abuse of pregnant migrants at a government hospital in Gauteng.
SOCCER QUIZ | FIVE simple answers... |
| 08.05.2023 | North West towns: No escape from sewage, not even after death | A screengrab from Google Earth (September 2021) shows untreated sewage pooling in the cemetery at Sannieshof in the North West Province. It is visible in the lower centre of the image and flows past the informal settlement to the Harts Rive... |
| 23.03.2023 | Look: DA speaker post MONKEYS with his EFF comment | Michelle Wasserman, ActionSA Western Cape Provincial Chairperson, lodge a complaint with the SAHRC against a DA speaker who posted a picture of monkeys while commenting on the EFF shutdown. Image: ActionSA
ActionSA in the Western Cape has l... |
| 18.03.2023 | Shutdown: SAHRC says the law must protect citizens | The SAHRC calls on law enforcement agencies to protect all South African on the day of the EFF national shutdown. Image: Twitter/@EFFSouthAfrica
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) calls on law enforcement agencies to protect ... |
| 13.02.2023 | SAHRC demands government to focus on disaster management | The SAHRC says the government needs to focus more on disaster management and climate change. Image: sahrc
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says the government needs to focus more on disaster management and climate change.
“... |
| 10.01.2023 | AfriForum: Has Malema become too high profile for the Human Rights Commission? | AFriForum accused the South African Human Rights commission (SAHRC) of not keeping its promise to take Julius Malema to court for hate speech.
The lobby group AfriForum say the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) failed to keep it... |
| 26.11.2022 | ICYMI – Racist woman rant: ‘Ban the black man, they rape, they kill..’ [Video] | LISTEN: Racist woman rant: ‘Ban the black man, they rape, they kill..’ Photos: Twitter/Stock
Brace yourself as you listen to the voice note of an elderly woman spewing a disgusting racist rant. It is sickening!
She defended herself and said... |
| 25.11.2022 | LISTEN: Racist woman rant: ‘Ban the black man, they rape, they kill..’ | LISTEN: Racist woman rant: ‘Ban the black man, they rape, they kill..’ Photos: Twitter/Stock
Brace yourself as you listen to the voice note of an elderly woman spewing a disgusting racist rant. It is sickening!
She defended herself and said... |
| 10.11.2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday 10 November 2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday 3 November 2022 Photo: Twitter / @EFFSouthAfrica
We’ve got all the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa you really need to know on Thursday, 10 November 2022.
The Commis... |
| 09.11.2022 | SAHRC gives Malema 10 days to retract ‘hate speech’ – he will not | EFF leader, Julius Malema. Photo: EFF / Twitter
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) ruled that some of the statements made by Julius Malema at an EFF gathering in October amounted to incitement of violence and hate speech. The... |
| 06.10.2022 | IFP to lodge grievance with SAHRC on behalf of KZN flood victims | Displaced KZN flood victims sleeping under a bus. Photo: IFP/ Facebook.
The IFP says it will be lodging an official grievance with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against the ANC government in KwaZulu-Natal.
“They have fur... |
| 16.09.2022 | Migrants access to healthcare in South Africa | Migrants access to healthcare in South Africa: Image: Adobe stock
The hostility against foreign nationals that has been displayed outside some of South Africa’s hospitals is not new or isolated. South Africa is home to about 2 million immig... |
| 21.08.2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Sunday 21 August 2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Sunday 21 August 2022 Photos: NadineClark/Facebook/SnowReport/Supplied
We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Sunday, 21 August.
TODAY’S LATEST NEWS IN SOUTH AFRIC... |
| 20.08.2022 | ‘I didn’t say that’: Lesufi rejects reports he promotes corporal punishment | MEC Panyaza Lesufi rejects reports that he supports the return of corporal punishment in schools. PHOTO: Facebook/Panyaza Lesufi
The Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi has rejected reports that he supports the return of corporal punis... |
| 13.08.2022 | JZ Foundation and Duduzile Zuma respond to Hawks probe | The Jacob Zuma Foundation has come in to defend Duduzile Zuma following news of the Hawks’ probe into the part she played in the 2021 July unrest. Photo: @DZumaSambudla / Twitter
The Jacob Zuma Foundation said it is ‘concerned’ about the fo... |
| 12.08.2022 | July unrest: Hawks investigating Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s role | The Hawks have confirmed they are looking into whether Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of former president Jacob Zuma, was involved in last year’s July riots.
How well do you know ‘Skeem Saam’? ENTER the SOAPIE QUIZ & WIN R1 000 in... |
| 25.05.2022 | Food insecurity in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic power house | Hunger in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic power house? What are the driving forces? Image: Adobe Stock
Food serves as one of the critical needs a person requires for daily survival. In South Africa it’s recognised as a fundamental human ri... |
| 15.05.2022 | SAHRC asks treasury for funds to protect whistleblowers | The SAHRC has asked National Treasury for funding to help protect and ensure the security of whistleblowers of the country.
In the battle against corruption and abuse of power, information has been a valuable asset. This is why the South Af... |
| 09.04.2022 | SA Human Rights Commission slams police and vigilantism in Diepsloot | Photo: David Tembe / TW
The situation in Diepsloot remains volaitile. One Zimbabwean man was killed by a vigilante mob this week. On the other hand, angry residents are demanding an end to the rampant crime in the area. They insist that the... |
| 06.03.2022 | ‘Senzo has been shot’: Could the first calls made be key in the trial?  | Senzo Meyiwa’s childhood friend, Tumelo Madlala. Images via Twitter @liz7piz.
Social media users think that the very first few calls that were made right after former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot could be key in his murder tr... |
| 12.01.2022 | It’s Imperative That South Africa Moves Fast On State Capture Prosecutions. Here’s Why | Justice Raymond Zondo, left, hands over part 1 of the State Capture Commission report to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 4 January. GCIS/Flickr
Since the dying days of apartheid in the mid-1990s, and at several pivotal moments since, South Afr... |
| 12.01.2022 | It’s Imperative That South Africa Moves Fast On State Capture Prosecutions. Here’s Why | Justice Raymond Zondo, left, hands over part 1 of the State Capture Commission report to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 4 January. GCIS/Flickr |
| 12.01.2022 | South Africa must move fast on state capture prosecutions | Raymond Zondo. Image: GCIS
Since the dying days of apartheid in the mid-1990s, and at several pivotal moments since, South Africans have yearned for some measure of accountability for the ravages of apartheid. After all, the end of a system... |
| 12.01.2022 | South Africa must move fast on state capture prosecutions | - |
| 07.01.2022 | State capture report: Now for the prosecutions | - |
| 07.01.2022 | State capture report: Now for the prosecutions | No self-respecting theatre critic would dream of reviewing a three-act play during the interval at the end of the first act. But that is what one is compelled to do after South Africa’s State Capture Commission released part one of its inqu... |
| - | Rights violation? SAHRC to investigate 24 day Tongaat water outage | Members of the public stand in a queue waiting for a private water tanker to deliver water at the Gokhale Hall Temple facilitated by the Disaster Management, inter faith based organisations, civic organisations and under the auspices of the... |
