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/ 11 December 2009
SAHRC chief executive Tseliso Thipanyane has resigned after being stripped of key powers by the new chairperson, Lawrence Mushwana.
Commission head says the concerns of disgruntled staff are being addressed
Government is responsible for the failures in SA’s public healthcare system, said the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Thursday.
Opposition parties on Monday lambasted the government for its handling of xenophobic violence in parts of the country, and even called for the army to be deployed. Mobs roaming through poor townships around Johannesburg have killed and beaten up immigrants over the past week, with Zimbabweans and others reporting purges by armed locals.
Controversial former Sunday Times columnist David Bullard has offered his ”sincere and heartfelt apologies” to those who were offended by his now-discontinued satirical Out to Lunch column, saying he is ”sorry to have caused so much offence”.
The South African Human Rights Commission is conducting an internal investigation into an incorrect media statement that said it would not pursue a complaint of racism against columnist David Bullard. ”The official position of the commission has never been that we are not taking up the matter,” said CEO Tseliso Thipanyane.
The South African government needs to ratify an international treaty on preventing torture, South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) chief executive Tseliso Thipanyane said on Friday. Thipanyane said he is concerned about the government’s ”terrible attitude” towards the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.
The emergence of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) indicates there are problems in the media, South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) CEO Tseliso Thipanyane said on Tuesday. ”What is going wrong in media rooms to lead to the establishment of the FBJ?” he asked at a discussion on how the media cover race and racism
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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.