Theme: Community Activism

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Sonke is very proud to be this year’s Civil Society Award runner-up in the Mail & Guardian annual Drivers for Change/Investing in the Future awards. Mail & Guardian reporter Iwan Pienaar wrote a summary of Sonke’s work, which you can read …

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Sonke was listed as a runner-up in the 2012 Africomnet Awards. The shortlist we were placed on “represents examples of good, effective and innovative HIV communication initiatives/campaigns which have the potential for replication.” » View the past winners

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Sonke received a prestigious runner-up award in the Mail & Guardian 2012 Investing in the Future Awards for our One Man Can Campaign, working with men and boys to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in their communities. » …

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A large part of Sonke’s work is community education and workshops, which give people the opportunity to engage on a personal level with the various issues we work on. However, there are only so many people that one organisation can reach …

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My name is Sikhangele Mabulu. I was born in Centane at Theko Kona Village in Eastern Cape. I now live in Kraaifontein in Cape Town. I was begotten by Mxolisi Mabulu and Nokhusile Mabulu. My father died in 2009, he …

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Sonke Gender Justice, Men for Gender Equality Sweden and Wikigender.org invite you to participate in Wikigender’s online discussion forum around the issue of Engaging Men and Boys to Transform Discriminatory Social Norms. The discussion thread is open and receiving comments, …

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Sonke Gender Justice together with Scalabrini Centre, MSAT, City of Cape Town and SAFA Nyanga LFA under the Unite As One Campaign hosted a 4-day Soccer Tournament Festival in Nyanga during the week of 25 to 28 September 2012 in …

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Sonke is grateful to be an official beneficiary of the annual Sisters with Blisters charity event, aimed at raising much-needed awareness about women and child abuse in South Africa. If you’d like to participate in this year’s Sisters with Blisters walk, …

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Sonke Gender Justice and the University of Cape Town hosted the first MenEngage Africa Training Initiative, which took place in August 2012. What is the MenEngage Africa Training Initiative? The MenEngage Africa Training Initiative (MATI) is a 10-day residential course …

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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 …

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It is the burning question that behaviour change advocates must face: who will ensure that the work we do is maintained and strengthened after the workshops, talks and events are over? Sonke’s answer to this question is the Community Action …

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Sonke is an active member of a new and important civil society initiative: the Alliance for Rural Democracy. The Alliance’s chief goal is to advocate against the Traditional Courts Bill, a Bill set to severely limit the rights of rural …

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The Alliance for Rural Democracy celebrates the resounding rejection of the Traditional Courts Bill by many provinces at yesterday’s sitting of the National Council of Provinces’ Select Committee on Security and Constitutional Development. However, we reject the decision by the …

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Honourable chairperson, members of your committee and peace loving people of our country!Thank you for affording me an opportunity to make this submission. My name is Patrick Godana and my clan name is Gatyeni, therefore I qualify to speak on …

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I sat down with Micheline Muzaneza, a trainer on Sonke’s Refugee Health and Rights project, to discuss the team’s recent success in running a workshop with Somalians in Cape Town. Somalis are a hard-to-reach community, especially when it comes to …

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This is an abridged transcript of Mamphela Ramphele’s speech given at UCT in March 2012. I was born and bred in the rural areas; I come from Limpopo province. I was a political activist in the 1970s working in the …

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This week Parliament holds public interviews to fill the long vacant seats of commissioners in the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The CGE has been in disarray for years and has failed to deliver on its mandate to promote gender equality.