Maternal and Child Healthcare Case June 2022
SECTION27, together with three affected persons, has launched litigation to confirm access to free healthcare for all pregnant women and children under six, including migrants.
Civil Society: Health Department circular a human rights violation
Johannesburg, 5 March 2019: The Gauteng Department of Health issued Circular Letter 5 of 2019, dated 20 February 2019 (“Circular”) in which it sought to limit access to health care services by people who are not South African through a requirement that they pay for all services. The Circular makes Continue Reading
Letter to Professor Lukhele regarding Circular 5 pf 2019
The Gauteng Department of Health issued a circular limiting the rights of non-South AFrican citizens to access health care. SECTION27 drafted a letter outlining the framework of legislation which the circular violated. Read the letter here. Letter to Prof Lukhele re Circular 5 of 2019 – 4 March 2019 You can Continue Reading
Press statement on Operation Fiela
Press statement: Civil society organisations address media on the ongoing raids targeting foreign nationals Johannesburg, 12 May 2015 – The recent spate of xenophobic attacks and the subsequent crackdown of Operation Fiela-Reclaim (“clean sweep”), in a show of institutional xenophobia, have occurred during Africa month in which Africa Day – Continue Reading