social movements

Women’sNet has slammed the 14-year jail sentence handed down to Dumisani Sikhakhane, a former secret service agent for murdering his former wife, their seven-year old daughter and the mother’s new husband.

Women’sNet media and information manager, Lebogang Marishane, has described the sentence as “a reflection of the justice system not recognising the worth of women’s lives”.

Press Release

23 August 2009

Today the Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre traders have reached a boiling point. City officials are still continuing to have meetings with an unconstitutional body in the Town Centre.

The Portfolio Committee on Communications of parliament has, through adverts in a few expensive newspapers targeted at affluent readers, called for nominations for a new board of the public broadcaster the SABC. The closing date for nominations of board members is now 14 August (it was originally 31 July 2009).

Development and Dreams: The urban legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup considers the effects of South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It is held that the greatest potential benefit of the 2010 World Cup is a repudiation of Afropessimism and an assertion of a contemporary African identity both at home and on a global stage.

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We celebrated 15 years of democracy at the election polls in April, giving rise to an opportunity to reflect on where we have come from, and where we are going. Like the often turbulent years of human adolescence, our country has experienced dynamic change and development since the first democratic elections in 1994. A key component of our democracy, the non-government organisation (NGO) sector, which delivers thousands of vital services to the broader community, has also experienced transition in the past decade and a half.

Well-known South African activist Kumi Naidoo and former secretary-general of CIVICUS, will take over from Gerd Leipold as executive director of Greenpeace International on 15 November 2009.

Naidoo was one of the founders of Global Call to Action Against Poverty, in 2005, and is now servicing as co-chairperson.

Ashoka Founder and CEO, Bill Drayton, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale University's 308th Commencement.

The honorary degrees awarded annually during the Yale University Commencement are the highest honor conferred by the university. Past recipients include Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King, Jr, John F Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor.

Protests over inadequate or non-existent service delivery continue to be a feature of South Africa’s socio-political landscape. Khutsong, Moutse, Matatiele, Bushbuckridge and other communities, have all reached boiling point, as people took to their demands to the streets.

Monday 19 January, 2009 - For Immediate Release