Meet Sonke’s activists: Vusi Cebekhulu
Vusi Cebekhulu, One Man Can Coordinator, is a family man, a Christian man and a man dedicated to making his country a better place. Before joining Sonke three years ago, Vusi worked with the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa and the Reproductive Health Research Unit, and his passion for nurturing life skills in others […]
Brother, I do not want to bury you. Get treated
Leo Mbobi tells of his struggle to get his ill brother treated for HIV. He used to beat me when I refused to go to school. He used to chase me in the gravel streets of Maclear, Eastern Cape, with bare feet. He used to search for me in those forests across the river of […]
Meet Sonke’s Staff: Sumaya Regal
Sumaya Regal joined Sonke in February to support the office of the Executive and Deputy Executive Directors and also serve as the board secretary. She is based in the Cape Town office. She is somewhat of a godsend to Sonke, and makes a lot of communication much easier, especially when it comes to the very busy […]
“Less Skin, We Win!”
Less Skin, We Win! That’s the message that commuters in Cape Town and Johannesburg are getting when they take their taxi ride into work today, as taxis branded with the new Sonke Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) campaign messages took to the streets, encouraging young men in the Western Cape and Gauteng to get circumcised. Using […]
Public Health and Law
Last winter, I packed my bags and headed to Cape Town for a two‐month internship with Sonke Gender Justice. As a research assistant in the Policy, Research and Advocacy unit, I would be working under Emily Keehn, a UCLA Law School Graduate and recent Cape Town transplant on a project involving the South African Prison […]
A More Social Sonke
The world is changing. Many of us lead parallel lives, one in our physical bodies, and one or more as digital entities. As resistant as many are to this phenomenon, it is very real and here to stay. Although we do not live physically on, for example, facebook, we act out many of the things […]
Hamba Kahle Bruce Nkala
On Saturday, 26 March 2011, Bruce Nkala, one of the One Man Can trainers based in the Cape Town office, passed away suddenly. We will all miss him, and send our thoughts and condolences to his family and loved ones. Bruce joined Sonke in July 2010 as a trainer on the WC Department of Health […]
