The Southern African Consortium for Climate Change and Health (“SACCCH”) welcomes the opportunity to make substantive input for developing the content of the draft outline of the General Comment on the right to a satisfactory, clean, healthy and sustainable environment (“Draft General Comment”) to the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Continue Reading
South Africa’s health budget is failing to respond to the realities facing women, particularly those living in poor and rural communities. The public health system, which serves 84% of the population, operates within at least three overlapping pressures: high unemployment and poverty, persistent gender inequality, and the increasing impacts of Continue Reading
By: Leila Ebrahim Grade 12 is a pivotal transitional phase in a learner’s life, marking the culmination of 12 years of schooling – a milestone many eagerly anticipate completing. For 18-year-old Naledi Bereng*, a grade 12 learner, the 2024 academic year brought with it the promise of life beyond school. Continue Reading
Today, SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launch a new report exposing widespread failures in access to abortion services in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo. The report, Barriers to Abortion Services in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo: 2026, documents how systemic failures in the public healthcare system are denying women and girls access to Continue Reading
The Treatment Action Campaign, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa, and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia – represented by SECTION27, have reached a settlement with the Gauteng Department of Health and other respondents, following the contempt application heard on 16 and 17 March 2026. The settlement resolves proceedings by the applicants Continue Reading
28 May 2023, Johannesburg — SECTION27 launched a successful urgent application on behalf of a pregnant minor who was denied access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) services at a primary public healthcare facility in Gauteng. The minor made multiple attempts to access these services, in accordance with her rights under Continue Reading
In South Africa, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights are enshrined in section 27 of the Constitution, which states that “everyone has the right to access health care services, including reproductive health care”. Sexual Reproductive Health Rights encompass an important group of human rights and include the right to define your sexuality; Continue Reading
Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng UN Special Rapporteur 31 July 2020 Dear Dr Mofokeng RE: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR APPOINTMENT SECTION27 and partners would like to congratulate you on your appointment as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Health. Your appointment by the Human Rights Council is in addition to your roles as Continue Reading
Johannesburg, 18th May — In a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa published today, the Fix the Patent Laws (FTPL) coalition outlined major concerns about South Africa’s ability to access future treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. They point out that the country’s outdated patent laws ensure that when effective treatments become available, Continue Reading
This week, we pay respect to South African Music Icon Mduduzi “Mandoza” Tshabalala who passed away yesterday after battling cancer. Mandoza’s music united South Africans, and allowed us all to be proud of our country. We were reminded that: “Indoda’ingawa namhlanje, Kusasa iphindi’vuke”. (A man may fall today, but he Continue Reading
9 AUGUST 2016 – Women’s Day 2016 calls for reflection, for quiet reflection amid the noise of our healthy and boisterous democracy. This Women’s Day we need to pay tribute to those who walked ahead – women like Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa, Sophia Williams De Bruyn and thousands Continue Reading
BLOEMFONTEIN, 8th AUGUST 2016: Today the #BopheloHouse94 are appearing in Bloemfontein High Court. The community healthcare workers (CHWs) are appealing their conviction in October 2015 in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. A conviction that found them guilty of violating the Regulation of Gatherings Act for attending a peaceful night vigil outside the Continue Reading
