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Speaking Out Can Set You Free
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Published: 24 November, 2009
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Speaking out against gender-based violence can help to set survivors free. Prior to the annual 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign, Gender Links, in partnership with other organisations, puts out a call to men and women affected by gender-based violence to share stories of how they suffered from this form of violence. “Gathering together in a workshop setting, survivors first tell each other their stories. They write their stories with the support of a team of editors, before the stories are finally sent to the mainstream media.
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Ermelo High School Court Ruling a Double-edged Sword!
The recent Constitutional Court ruling involving Ermerlo High School raises critical questions about the roles and functions of the Department of Education and school governing bodies in determining language policy. The court found that the school governing body refused to adhere to an instruction by the Head of Department of the Mpumalanga Education Department to alter its language policy to provide instruction in Afrikaans as well as English.

Shoot to Kill: A Camouflaged Revival of the Death Penalty and Reversal of the Bill of Rights?
While one understands the frustrations and responsibilities of government to protect law abiding citizens, emotional and populist utterings may put the lives of the law abiding police and the public at greater risk. Instead of promoting shoot to kill approach towards crime in the country, government must work in partnership with some not so formal crime busting civil society structures, who may prove more experienced in detecting and spotting crimes.

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AIDS Consortium: Gala Dinner
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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  • Helping informal traders to help themselves
    Getting into informal trading is one of the ways in which poor people can overcome socio-economic hardships associated with unemployment and hunger. To grow the informal trading sector, local governments should improve the conditions under which informal traders do business. SANGONeT intern, Isaac Mnguni, investigates the problems that informal traders face in the City of Johannesburg. His investigation also highlight the need for Johannesburg-based informal traders to enjoy their constitutional right to practice trade of their choice and heed government’s call to do it for themselves in the spirit of vukuzenzele.
  • loveLife Launches HIV Prevention Gauge 2009

    The HIV Prevention Gauge of 2009 shows that progress has been made in combating HIV, but that we still do not invest enough in a fully-fledged national portfolio of programmes to prevent it. Given the limitations of current knowledge about what really works, we will not be able to stop all new infections. But we can probably stop half of them.

  • Enabling Political Parties to Participate in Elections

    The Batswana went to the polls for the 10th time since independence from Britain in 1966. The African Union urged Botswana to provide state funding to political parties to enable them to strengthen its democracy and level the playing field.

  • Between a Shack and an RDP House: Alternative Forms of Tenure Security

    There is simply not enough money and resources available to quickly provide everyone who needs a house with a full RDP house. In the absence of any alternative, households have not much choice but to occupy illegal informal settlements. There is an urgent need for the South African government to expand the number of alternative ways for the poor to access tenure security and basic services

  • MenEngage Africa Explores Masculinities

    "I am a young man with a dream, a dream of a future, a prosperous future, where men, women, boys, and girls, young and old are equal and enjoy gender equitable lives; where men and women are regarded equally and not treated differently based on their faces and sex; where boy and girl children have equal opportunities, at home, at school and in public places. Yes, I am a real young man working for that future. And that future is now"

  • Africa is Hungry: How Women Can Make a Difference

    “Hunger begins with inequality - between men and women, and between rich and poor. It grows because of perverse policies that treat food purely as a commodity, not a right. It is because of these policies that most developing countries no longer grow enough to feed themselves, and that their farmers are among the hungriest and poorest people in the world. Meanwhile, the rich world battles growing obesity”

  • Behind the Scenes at the Social Media for NGOs Conference

    When I received an email from our editor asking me to write an article about what happened behind the scenes in planning and preparing for the 2009 SANGONeT "Social Media for NGOs" Conference, I thought, ‘what exactly is there to write?’. Well, here’s my take on how our events unfolded…

  • Non-profits Take to Social Media Like Ducks to Water

    By the time the 2009 SANGONeT "ICTs for Civil Society" Conference, held in Johannesburg and Cape Town, ended at the River Club in Observatory on 21 October 2009, there were more non-profits excited about the potential uses of social media in their work than when we began.

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