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

Thursday marks the 6th International Day against bullying and violence at school. This year, we observe it in the wake of the Milnerton High School bullying incident and Mthatha's St John's College's sexual violence allegations, which have sent shockwaves throughout the country.

This month, on 15 September, parliaments, national human rights institutions and civil society around the world observed the International Day of Democracy, declared as such by the UN General Assembly in 2007. This year’s observation also serves as a reminder of the need to promote and protect democracy against increased threats to it – the likes of which we are witnessing globally, and in our country.

Professor Mosibudi Mangena’s September 21, 2025 column in the Sunday World titled, “Declaring ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it” is stupid and counterproductive” refers. The column raises important questions about nation building and post-apartheid belongingness that are worth debating. I will return to these issues in a moment. Unfortunately, the good prof spoils the column with misleading statements about the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). He claim

Clement Manyathela speaks to Tshepo Madlingozi, who is a commissioner with the South African Human Rights Commission about the complaints the commission has received based on previous comments made by Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie about black people. Madlingozi explains how the commission will investigate McKenzie’s comments.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the first State of Emergency by the apartheid regime. In recalling this ignoble anniversary, I choose to focus on the challenge the apartheid regime sought to address with that unprecedented suppression tool: people’s power. I posit that one of the outcomes of the National Dialogue ought to be the reinvigoration of the spirit and praxis of people’s power.

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/

Tshidi Madia in for Clement Manyathela speaks to Prof. Tshepo Madlingozi, a Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) about role the institution plays in promoting and protecting human rights in the country.

As Africa Month ends, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wishes to draw attention to a key struggle for African self-determination, remembering and “re-membering”. That struggle is the struggle for the full liberation of cannabis.

Former Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws and the South African Human Rights Commission have reached a settlement in the complaint the commission lodged against the YouTuber-turned-politician before the Equality Court. This after Gouws publicly apologised for his 2010 video, which contained racially offensive and harmful language directed towards black South Africans. Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission, Professor Tshepo Madlingozi, j

South African Human Rights Commissioner Prof. Tshepo Madlingozi says they expected no different outcome from court in the inquiry into the 15-year-old racist video former DA MP Renaldo Gouws posted after the elections last year.

As South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day today, we reflect on the progress made and the challenges that remain in the fight for equality. While our nation has come a long way since the end of apartheid, racial injustice and discrimination continue to affect many South Africans, limiting access to opportunities, justice, and basic human dignity. To further unpack let's now welcome Prof. Tshepo Madlingozi, Commissioner for Justice, Education, Anti-Racism and Equality at the

The South African Human Rights Commissioner is convening a three-day inquiry into the impact of load reduction. Residents at a hearing in Gauteng accuse the power utility of targeting specific demographics when cutting power, and that it's seen as a collective punishment. SAHRC Commissioner Tshepo Madlingozi explains further.

In a bid to address ongoing discrimination, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will host its first Rights of Rastafari Roundtable. The Commission has expressed deep concern over the continued marginalisation of Rastafari communities, citing issues like unlawful cannabis arrests, high unemployment, school expulsions, and exclusion from the cannabis industry, despite constitutional protections. To speak more on this, we welcome Prof. Tshepo Madlingozi, Commission

The enduring significance of Le Rona Re Batho: An Account of the 1982 Massacre is that it is exemplary of the project of go motho fatsha - the project of (re)humanisation. I want to argue that this book is important because it operationalises what I regard as the four tactics of anti-colonial humanisation work; namely, grievability, naming, discrediting of colonial narratives and engaging in counter-discourse to refuse the terms set by the coloniser. To read the full article

It is crucial that there is a national dialogue that engages seriously with the question of how we work towards a truly non-racist society. While this discourse on the impugned racial classifications includes identities of individuals and groups, it is also integral to the national question — a question about nation-building pursuant to redress, redistribution, reparations, and reconciliation processes and measures. This twin deconstruction and reconstruction approach is also

Fifty-five years ago, a group of black students launched the South African Student Organisation (SASO). They delinked from white-dominated student organisations because they were impelled to face the existentialist questions posed to all historically colonised and oppressed individuals and groups — “what am I?” and “who am I?” Responses to these questions are prerequisites to launching struggles for genuine liberation and emancipation. The failure to respond to these question

The South African Human Rights Commission will turn to the Constitutional Court to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment. The contested ruling states that SAHRC recommendations are not binding, and can only be enforced by a court of law.

The highly anticipated judgment this week will have far-reaching implications. The implication for intersex people and the recognition of their equal right to pursue a profession in sports is critical. The judgment will set the tone for future sporting regulation. Hopefully, it will ensure that human rights are and promoted by sporting bodies all over the world.

Professor Tshepo Madlingozi, a Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission, has been actively involved in various civil society organizations and initiatives, including the Rural Democracy Trust, Khulumani Support Group, and the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA). For a significant period from 2015 to 2018, Professor Madlingozi dedicated his efforts to the Khulumani Support Group, serving as the National Advocacy Coordinator and later as Chair