(Johannesburg) – Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

While access to proper sanitation is a basic human right enshrined in South Africa's constitution ... With the help of Section27, a human rights law firm, the family are set to appeal against ...

Human rights groups welcomed it, but said that the government needed to publicly recognise attacks on foreigners as xenophobic. In a statement published in October 2018, South Africa's main ...

CSA must take a stronger stance by refusing to play against Afghanistan and standing up for women’s rights in the face of the ...

At least 78 bodies were recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, highlighting a severe crackdown on miners. Authorities, defending the operation, face criticism over alleged negligence and ...

We were all excited in the early years of our post-apartheid South Africa when our new democratic dispensation saw the ...

The bill will aim to strengthen governance in South Africa's education sector and help improve the system PRETORIA - ...