Today our guest is SAHRC Gushwell Brooks Communications Co-ordinator.

• The South African Human Rights Commission has started its investigations into the July unrest by conducting hearings from today.
• Among other things the commission is looking into the causes of the unrest, the alleged racially motivated attacks and killings following the unrest, and the lapses in the security cluster.
• The near two-week-long civil unrest was concentrated in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng and left over 300 dead and caused billions of rands in infrastructure damages.
• The commission says the unrest deepened unemployment, poverty and rampant socio-economic inequality within South Africa and exacerbated, amongst other things, inequality between certain communities, unemployment levels, poverty, hunger, and food insecurity.