The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it is considering approaching parliament to pass a legislative amendment, giving it the power to make its directives binding.

The SAHRC says it receives 10 000 complaints annually and that it lacks the litigation budget to enforce non compliance in court, prompting plans to approach parliament for legislative amendments

Stellenbosch University has appointed human rights scholar and activist Tshepo Madlingozi as an extraordinary professor at its Centre for Social Justice. The appointment strengthens the centre’s research and policy engagement on constitutionalism, reparative justice and human rights.

The South African Human Rights Commission says budget cuts are negatively impacting the provision of quality education in public schools already plagued by a lack of infrastructure. "One of the biggest challenges is austerity, there has been budget cuts. While we understand fiscal consolidation, austerity undercuts constitutional promises," said SAHRC commissioner Tshepo Madlingozi. Click on this link to read the full article: https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/sahrc-repo

Based on the prevalence of discrimination and the perpetration of violence against the LGBTQIA+ community, it is evident that we still have a long way to go to achieve substantive equality, but as we shift our focus towards prioritising the changing of hearts and minds through proactive interventions and restorative justice, we may be closer than ever to walking the path to equality, and experiencing pride in true change. Read the full article here: https://groundup.org.za/

In this episode, Professor Tshepo Madlingozi speaks with Kneo Mokgopa of the Nelson Mandela Foundation about his personal encounters with environmental racism, how Steve Biko anticipated liberation thought and the unexpected role swimming has played in his life.

The new director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at Wits University will be Dr Tshepo Madlingozi, effective from June this year.

The Khulumani Support Group, a social movement of victims and survivors of gross violations of human rights under apartheid, has decided to intervene, along with a network of civil society organisations, as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the Constitutional Court case between Robert McBride and The Citizen.

Suspended sentences for apartheid criminals Adriaan Vlok and his co-accused are just not good enough. But then neither was the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to select a privileged “good” and understanding survivor in the form of Rev Frank Chikane as the test case for the NPA’s prosecutions policy, amended without public debate in 2005. Picture Credit: Rowyn Lombard