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So Much For A Policy Review!

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 11/09/2008 - 15:15

On Monday I attended the ANC Women’s League Gauteng policy review workshop.  The purpose of the workshop was to “review the implementation of the ANC policies in government and in general with regard to women”.

Apartheid IsReal?

Submitted by lcdonnelly on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:54

On Tuesday 2 September attended a talk entitled, “Apartheid IsReal” by ANC Parliamentary Caucus Chairperson and anti-Apartheid activist Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge speak at Wits University. The event was sponsored by the Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), the South African Student Congress (SASCO), the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and the Young Communist League (YCL).

Digital Story Telling in Sarajevo

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Wed, 03/09/2008 - 12:39

It's my first full day in Sarajevo, and today is the preparation day for the Digital Stories Training that starts tomorrow. I arrived yesterday at midday, to be met by Valintina and Sanjin from One World Platform for South East Europe (OWPSEE). It was great to see Valentina again - we have spent some time at Association for Progressive Communications (APC) meetings and events before.

One in Nine Election Strategy Meeting

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Fri, 29/08/2008 - 11:00
Monday the 25th of August I attended the One in Nine general elections strategy meeting in Cape Town.  The purpose of the meeting was to come up with suggestions on how One in Nine would examine the elections set for April 2009 and to propose different activities. 

The One in Nine campaign was established in 2006 as a result of the Jacob Zuma rape case. The women (and men) involved in the campaign sang daily outside of court during the trial showing their solidarity to Khwezi.

Women's Day at Sci- Bono

Submitted by Faith on Thu, 14/08/2008 - 15:53
WOW! Here I am employed at Womens'Net for my 1st week and .... working.... on a Saturday: the 09th of August! Sci- Bono (www.sci-bono.co.za) is a math, science & technology discovery centre, reportedly the biggest of its kind in Africa. It held a "Women's Day" programme for school girls to interact with women experts from various science fields in math, biology, physical science & technology.

How i became an “activist”

Submitted by dumisani on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 13:09
I founded a publication that prached interesting “jibberish” about Rastafari. The aim; to redeem many ignorant and stereotypical people from lack of information and resource material regarding Rastafari. We also spiced it with some nice creative writing, events, entertainment, and recent Afrikan updates.

Me,Myself and Activitism

Submitted by jeffrey on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:59
In 1998 my parents enrolled me in and after school project named TEKPREP(Technical Preparation) which focused in developing young people on different skills,introducing them to variety of work fields. One of the fields was community work where we offered different services to a number of institutes from shelters to oprhanages and this became my introduction to social work. It was later that I got to understand the term activist and what it meant.

From burnout to burning

Submitted by janice ian manlutac on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:54
The drill goes like this. You go to school and read dead authors. Fill your head with theories and listen to people tell you what's wrong with the world. (They never tell you though how to make things right.) Then you graduate and “make the grade”. You join the rat race and once you graduate from being a rat, people tell you that you are good once you've entered the “dog eats dog” club.

when can u call urself an activist?

Submitted by mezab on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:54
I'm very passionate about development. I have a need to contribute to the development of my country. I think we live in a very interesting time in the history of our country South Africa, we have a chance to shape and contribute into building the future of this country. no excuses no nothing. its like 50 years from now I'll be able to say I did ABC in the development and nurturing of our democracy. so I wouldn't call myself an activist or maybe I am.

How did Sindi "BOB" Mbandlwa became an activist

Submitted by Bobz on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:51
I started in 2002 after attending a training that was organised by SINANI, which was on trauma management. We were taught about how to deal with people who have been traumitise through violence. It was an eye opener for me, because of the issues we were dealing with, which forced me to look at my own life experiences. However my interest was around HIV/AIDS as most of my family passed on through HIV/AIDS related illnesses, being HIV positive myself I wanted to be different from them, by not letting the views of “uneducated society” bury me while alive.