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The South African Human Rights Commission has not received a budget increase for the current financial year and will struggle to fulfil its mandate. | gerbjan

The SAHRC got no budget increase for the current financial year and had to cut back on some of its operations.The acting CEO has resigned after disciplinary action was instituted against her.

On Wednesday, the commission presented its budget and annual performance plan to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services. "This decision has a cost implication of R1.8 million that we had to factor into the 0% budget adjustment that we had received on the baseline budget from National Treasury," said Siphugu.

The commission's total budget is just below R224 million, of which 69% goes to personnel costs, leaving 30% for its operations and 1% for capital expenditure.The budget constraints meant that some projects and plans had to fall by the wayside.

 

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