Topic: Human Rights

Pride marchers celebrate progress in townships

But they call on justice system to do better, starting with the police

Brief | 19 May 2025

Concourt hands victory to blind people after Ramaphosa’s failure to sign copyright act

Anyone with a physical, intellectual, neurological or sensory impairment can now get accessible formats of copyrighted works without asking permission

By Tania Broughton

Law | 12 May 2025

Constitutional Court rules on citizenship

Law which stripped citizenship from South Africans who took another country’s citizenship is unconstitutional

By Tania Broughton

Law | 6 May 2025

Payment delay leaves KwaZulu-Natal charities struggling

Last week the Department of Social Development notified non-profit organisations that payments will be delayed

By Joseph Bracken

News | 23 April 2025

Six distinctions but no ID: Top matriculant’s hope of becoming a doctor crushed

“My mother was a citizen, yet I cannot get an ID” says Emmanuel Ndlovu

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 17 April 2025

Thousands march across the country to demand justice for Cwecwe

There has been no significant progress in the seven-year-old’s case

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Ihsaan Haffejee

News | 8 April 2025

Judge puts an end to a lifetime of statelessness for 36-year-old

Department of Home Affairs must issue Primrose Modisane with an ID, court rules

By Tania Broughton

Law | 7 April 2025

Campaign launched to help stateless people become citizens

Hundreds take part in human rights festival at Constitutional Hill

By Ihsaan Haffejee and Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 24 March 2025

Sharpeville: “These politicians just come and create a spectacle”

Residents say Human Rights Day means little in their township

By Ihsaan Haffejee

Photo Essay | 21 March 2025