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/ 7 December 2007
The sheer number of crimes being committed in South Africa is still at an unacceptable level, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said on Friday. The decrease in reported crime, however, is encouraging, it said. The rights body said its finding on the unacceptable level of crime is ”exacerbated by the massive under-reporting of crime”.
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/ 28 November 2007
The R98,7-million penalty imposed on Tiger Brands was too lenient, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Wednesday at a Competition Tribunal hearing in Pretoria. ”Bread in particular is a diet of the poorest and it is appalling that people should enrich themselves by robbing the poor,” it said.
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/ 15 November 2007
A new process of presidential pardons for people who have committed alleged political offences appears in the offing, it emerged on Thursday. President Thabo Mbeki has asked Parliament’s presiding officers to convene a joint sitting of the two Houses next Wednesday for him to make an announcement in this regard.
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/ 14 November 2007
The Equality Court on Wednesday ordered a Durban landlord with a ”whites only” policy to pay a woman R10 000 in compensation and scrap his discriminatory policy. The court declared the offending clause in the lease agreement unconstitutional and invalid.
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/ 24 October 2007
South Africa needs to review its crime-prevention strategy, the South African Human Rights Commission has recommended. ”In addition, policies and legislation should be revisited to improve integration, coordination and cooperation across the criminal justice system,” it said in a report on its crime conference in March.
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/ 24 October 2007
South Africa still does not have a comprehensive national security policy, the South African Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday. It also had no policy to fight poverty, said SAHRC CEO Tselifo Thitanyane. ”The integrated justice system is not really working,” said commission chairperson Jody Kollapen.
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/ 24 October 2007
The South African Broadcasting Corporation would be within its rights not to run a story on Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, but media diversity is important in ensuring that other outlets can run it if they choose to, African National Congress (ANC) politician and businessman Saki Macozoma said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Under no circumstances should a patient’s medical records be disclosed unless he or she gives personal consent, a seminar hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission was told on Tuesday. A panel was discussing the implications of articles published by the Sunday Times about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 23 October 2007
Under no circumstances should a patient’s medical records be disclosed unless he or she gives personal consent, a seminar hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission was told on Tuesday. Chairperson of the South African Medical Association Dr Kgosi Letlape said medical records should not be disclosed without consent.
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/ 12 October 2007
Disgruntled University of Johannesburg (UJ) students on Friday decided not to attend a scheduled meeting with management to resolve campus issues. The university’s spokesperson, Sonia Cronjé, said the meeting between student representatives and management had been scheduled for 2pm.
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/ 12 October 2007
A meeting between disgruntled University of Johannesburg students and management is expected to be convened on Friday, university officials said. The students has complained that the Doornfontein, Soweto and Bunting Road campuses were being sidelined when compared with the Kingsway campus.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it stands by its statement on South African Broadcasting Corporation board deputy chairperson Christine Qunta and on Thursday laid complaints against her and the company Comforters Healing Gift. On Wednesday, Qunta’s legal representatives demanded the TAC stop publishing defamatory material about her.
The South African Human Rights Commission has spoken out against children’s rights violations at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, where newborn babies were put in a cardboard box. ”The commission reiterates that section 10 of the Bill of Rights provides that everyone has inherent dignity,” spokesperson Vincent Moaga said in a statement on Thursday.
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/ 25 September 2007
Research done at the University of Cape Town shows that advertisers do not pay more for a white readership, despite the findings of a South African Human Rights Commission report seven years ago. A paper published on Tuesday finds that, allowing for socioeconomic differences, there is no discounted advertising rate for a black audience.
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/ 19 September 2007
Sexual harassment on farms is on the increase and the victims are getting younger, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) heard on Wednesday. This was according to Claudia Lopes from Rural Education Awareness and Community Health (Reach), presenting at public hearings on the effectiveness of legislative and policy changes in farming communities.
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/ 18 September 2007
The difficulty in implementing policies designed to protect the interests of farm workers and farmers has prompted the South African Human Rights Commission to conduct an inquiry into conditions on farms. SAHRC spokesperson Vincent Moaga said on Tuesday that public hearings would look into three issues: land-tenure security, labour relations and safety on farms.