A third option for recording gender with the Department of Home Affairs is welcome, but needs to be available to anyone who would like to use it for whatever reason.
This was the sentiment of activists, academics and legal experts who engaged with the department’s director, Sihle Mthiyane, about its proposed identity management policy. The virtual discussion was hosted by Iranti, a media advocacy organisation defending the rights of lesbian, intersex and transgender persons in Africa.
In December 2020, the Department of Home Affairs gazetted a draft official identity management policy document for public comment. The changes affect the registration of births and deaths, biometric data, digitisation and also the way sex is recorded by the department.
An immediate, transparent, and fully comprehensive vaccine plan, accompanied by a documents drive is urgently required, write the authors. (Michael Ciaglo, Getty Images via AFP)
Global South Against Xenophobia (GSAX) of the COVID-19 People’s Coalition, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the
South African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) have written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking that government reveal its vaccine rollout strategy.
Global South Against Xenophobia (GSAX) of the COVID-19 People’s Coalition,
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the South African Human Rights Defenders
Network (SAHRDN) call on government to transparently reveal its vaccine
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The CGE found this practice to be cruel, torturous or inhuman and degrading treatment .
The report was referred to several parties, including the HPCSA.
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is still investigating cases of forced or coerced sterilisations in South Africa. The matter is still under investigation, communications manager Priscilla Sekhonyana told News24.
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) released a report - in February 2020 - which found the practice of forced or coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV in South Africa s public hospitals was cruel, torturous or inhuman and degrading treatment .
The Chapter 9 institution received a complaint on 20 March 2015 from the Women s Legal Centre on behalf of Her Rights Initiative and the International Community of Women living with HIV.
The following question is part of and comes from a reader wanting to know about claiming inheritance.
My late father, a police captain, never recognised me as his daughter. Can I claim anything from his estate?
The short answer
You could ask the GEPF and see if there is any way in which you could be included as a beneficiary..
The whole question
My biological father passed away yesterday. He was a captain in the police force.
Unfortunately, he never acknowledged me as his daughter. My mother and grandmother took him to court back in 1981 for blood tests but every time the results came back they were told in court that the dockets had gone missing.