The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has come out strongly against what it calls “unlawful and degrading” evictions being carried out in Gauteng and other parts of the country, warning that the practice violates the Constitution and leaves vulnerable families destitute. In a statement released on Sunday, the Commission condemned remarks by Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi, who recently vowed that the province would push ahead with night-time operations to reclaim hijacked buildings and dismantle informal settlements, even if it…

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has welcomed a landmark ruling by the Western Cape Equality Court declaring that statements made by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema in 2022 amounted to hate speech and incitement to violence. The ruling, delivered on Tuesday, 27 August 2025, found both Malema and the EFF jointly and severally liable for legal costs. The case stems from a fiery speech Malema delivered at the EFF’s Western Cape Provincial People’s Assembly in October…

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has held a high-level meeting with Operation Dudula leadership, warning them that their campaign to block undocumented foreign nationals from accessing public health facilities risks denying medical care to South Africans who lack official documents. Operation Dudula began stationing its members at government clinics and hospitals, with activists claiming they were protecting overstretched resources from being drained by illegal migrants. The group’s members position themselves at facility entrances, questioning patients and demanding proof of South…

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests has ruled that it will not investigate Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie over decade-old tweets containing the K-word – but political and public pressure for his removal continues to mount. In a decision announced on Tuesday, the committee concluded that the remarks, which resurfaced earlier this month, predated McKenzie’s swearing-in as a Member of Parliament on 14 June 2024 and therefore fell outside its jurisdiction. “The Code of Ethical Conduct…

Patriotic Alliance leader and Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie is refusing to back down amid growing calls for his dismissal over resurfaced tweets containing racial slurs, defiantly defending himself on social media platform X despite mounting political and public outrage. On Tuesday, McKenzie posted several of his own decade-old tweets, insisting they prove he is not racist. Among them was one exchange in which he wrote: “The dumbest thing I have ever heard!!!! @QtheDJ: @G_XCON nothing wrong with…

Johannesburg – Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza has confirmed receiving urgent requests from MPs to convene a snap debate on explosive allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The top cop’s allegations have rocked the political and judicial establishment and triggered a call for a full Commission of Inquiry from the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Parliament said on Tuesday that Speaker Didiza had received two formal letters from political parties requesting an emergency debate…

The Bushbuckridge Local Municipality in Mpumalanga has refuted claims by the Democratic Alliance (DA) that it purchased a non-functional water tank worth 42 Million. This was after the DA called on the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality Manager, Jasper Ngobeni, to institute an investigation into the water storage tank that was purchased in 2015.  In a press statement, DA councillor Canuel Mnisi said the former manager for Technical Services at the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality, Emmanuel Makhavhu, stated that the water tank is…

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has launched multiple investigations into allegations that the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, led by MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Mngadi, is failing to provide medication in state hospitals. This is contained in a response sent by the Commission to ActionSA provincial chairperson Zwakele Mncwango. Mncwango lodged a complaint after he was tipped off by concerned hospital staff and patients that were turned back from hospitals empty handed and told to buy medication in expensive private pharmacies. …

Patriotic Alliance (PA) Deputy President Kenny Kunene says he is unfazed by the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) threats to report him to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) over his disparaging comments about illegal miners, also known as Zama Zamas. Dismissing EFF President Julius Malema as a “lover of illegal foreigners” Kunene says his party, known for its anti-immigration policy, will always put South Africans ahead of foreign nationals who are in the country without valid documents. Kunene, a…