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

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 the approach that was proposed by then deputy president Thabo Mbeki in 1996 in his “I am an African” speech while also, in a 1998 speech, w

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

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 .