Photos by: Gillian Schutte
Sikhala Sonke invited media and public to bear witness to their lives in Marikana in August 2014.
Marikana Widows Shed Tears in Women’s Month
By Gillian Schutte: Picture credit: Women were left carrying the burden in Marikana, courtesy Gillian Schutte
This women’s month marks two years since the Marikana massacre. The widows of the workers killed by the South African Police Service in 2012 have since
Victims of witch-hunts in South Africa are ignored.
By: Damon Leff
A recent MWEB radio advert and the response from City Press demonstrated how human rights abuses resulting from accusations of witchcraft in South Africa are dismissed in favour of profit and misleading headlines. [0]
Pride does justice proud
The first Johannesburg People’s Pride march took place on October 5 at Constitution Hill and the political nature of the event was clearly evident. Protest songs filled the air. People’s Pride linked many struggles to those for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights – housing and other socioeconomic rights, and access to water and food.
67 Minutes of Shame: Homophobic Hate Crimes Go Unnoticed
“Africa your silence is loud! Speak out against patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia.”
Lack of service delivery and women
This clip is from the documentary Transforming informal settlements – The Grootboom case, and The forgotten place.
It looks at the particular impact poverty and lack of services has on women.
Lack of service delivery and women
Womens’ sense of dignity compromised by lack of basic services
A trip into any of the hundreds of informal settlements in South Africa is a brutal reminder of the need to highlight issues such as the absence of basic services for women living in impoverished conditions.
Women struggle against the diseases that flourish in areas that offer virtually no services.