Uber, local NGO to launch mandatory safety education for driver-partners
According to the United Nations, nearly one in three women around the world experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. South African women who...
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Safe Space for Men to fight GBVF
In light of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence against women and children, the government has launched Safe Space for Men and a community...
Cops say no to violence against women, children
To mark the first day of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, police officers yesterday took some time out of their morning routine to...
Communities to house refugees
Struggling communities in Cameroon and Nigeria have hosted refugees who have been living in dire situations for the past eleven years without any way of...
International African American Museum receives $1.25 million
The International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, has announced a $1.25 million grant from the Duke Endowment. The funding includes a $1 million endowment gift and...
New subscription snack box for South Africans and Zimbabweans abroad
YeboBox is a new subscription service that delivers a monthly box of different homegrown sweets and snacks to nostalgic South Africans and Zimbabweans living in...
Embrace dignity deems Ministers sex -work decriminalisation statement as “irresponsible “
The Honourable Deputy Minister of Social Development, Henrietta Bogopane-Zulu was quoted in several media reports as having made a policy pronouncement calling for the “decriminalisation...
#DontGoBackToAbnormal: KAUAI’s call to rebuild a better post-COVID ‘normal’
Day by day, we’re shaping our post-pandemic realities by tentatively returning to pre-lockdown habits or sticking with new behaviours we’ve discovered we prefer during lockdown. Still, for many South Africans, the main topic of conversation over the past few months has been our desire ‘to go back to normal’. But when our pre-COVID-19 reality was characterised by equally devastating issues like gender-based violence, environmental concerns...
UN Women and Plan International co-host digital youth activism convo on Instagram Live
Ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, UN Women and Plan International co-hosted a conversation on digital youth activism on Instagram...
Rwanda’s COVID-19 response goes high-tech
Drones are becoming effective in Rwanda, following a lack of compliance by residents to follow directives to stay home, wash hands, respect physical distancing and...