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Project Updates

Call for Applications: Masculinities, Leadership and Gender Justice Training Course, 16-26 September 2013

Details: Published on Monday, 20 May 2013 09:28; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke Gender Justice Network, the MenEngage Africa Network and the Women’s Health Research Unit at the University of Cape Town are proud to host the second MenEngage Africa Training Initiative course: ‘Masculinities, Leadership and Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa’, to be held from 16-26 September 2013 at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

SANAC and Brothers for Life Dialogue on Prevention of GBV Attended by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe

Details: Published on Friday, 19 April 2013 10:52; Written by Patrick Madden

Bafana Khumalo speaks at the Brothers for Life Dialogue

The SANAC men’s sector is preparing a programme to mobilise a million men in South Africa to be actively involved in programmes aimed at stopping the spread of gender based violence, following the men’s dialogue in which 200 men participated, convened by Deputy President Motlanthe to address the spread of gender based violence in South Africa. The dialogue was attended by a cross section of men including the Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister in the Presidency, Collins Chabane and Deputy Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities.

» Declaration by the Men of South Africa on the elimination of violence against women and children

» Government, Civil Society in Joint Effort to Fight Rape

» Home must be a safe place

» Motlanthe Urges Better Family LIfe

Sonke Submits Comments on the Commission on Gender Equality Amendment Bill

Details: Published on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:14; Written by Patrick Madden

As part of its work within the Commission for Gender Equality Monitor, Sonke has joined a collective of civil society organisations to submit comments to the National Assembly on the Commission on Gender Equality Amendment Bill.

» Download the Submission on the CGE Act Amendment Bill

» Download the CGE Monitor Concept Note

» Download the Commission for Gender Equality Act of 1996

» Download the Commission for Gender Equality Act Amendment Bill of 2012

Brothers 4 Life Supports MMC and Fatherhood Event in Zola Emndeni

Details: Published on Thursday, 04 April 2013 11:27; Written by Patrick Madden

Brown Bottle Entertainment (BBE) embarked on a massive door-to-door campaign targeting the Zola Emndeni area on 1 April 2013. This activity was supported by Brothers For Life, with more than 60 men participating. The men gathered at Zola Clinic at 10am then moved around the community to promote Male Medical Circumcision and the Fatherhood dialogue, which is scheduled for 6 April 2013.

Sonke Delivers a Report on Government Action taken to involve Men and Boys to Prevent VAWG at the UN CSW

Details: Published on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:10; Written by Cherith Sanger

In March 2013, Sonke Gender Justice Network (Sonke) presented a report at the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (the CSW) on progress made by the South African government against national and global commitments it has made to educate and engage men and boys to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) during the period 2010 to 2012. The priority theme of the 57th session was the ‘elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’.

Sonke Joins Call for Action at the 57th CSW by the International Campaign to Stop Rape in Conflict

Details: Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 12:23; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke has joined the call for action at the 57^th CSW by the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict, of which Sonke is a member. Sonke and the campaign call for progressive agreed conclusions and express “alarm that a number of states are using the Commission to reverse hard‐won progress the global community has made in the past couple of decades to eliminate violence against women.”

» Sonke ED Dean Peacock at the UN: One Million Men, One Million Promises

» Download the press release

Sonke's Participation at 57th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, NYC March 4-14th

Details: Published on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:15; Written by Patrick Madden

Each year the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets at UN headquarters in New York to review progress against commitments made in international agreements and national law to advance women’s rights. This year the 57th CSW focuses on the prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Sonke Gender Justice will participate at the CSW in a number of different roles.

Update on Sonke's Complaint against Pastor 'Mboro' in 2011

Details: Published on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:21; Written by Patrick Madden

Pastor Paseka Motsoeneg – also known as Pastor ‘Mboro’ - arrested by SAPS for alleged sexual assault of women and girls. The South African Human Rights Commission is following up on complaint against Pastor Mboro submitted by Sonke Gender Justice and People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) in June 2011.

Sonke and MenEngage Launch Africa Policy Report Series

Details: Published on Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:27; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke's International Programmes and Network Unit, on behalf of MenEngage Africa, have launched a set of national policy reports across the Africa region examining policies, laws and plans in the areas of HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, parenting and LGBTI issues.

The first two reports - on Zambia and Uganda - were released this week. Check them out here.

First National Bank Supports Sonke's Work in Prisons

Details: Published on Monday, 18 February 2013 15:58; Written by Patrick Madden

Under the banner and guidance of Sonke Gender Justice, the FNB Fund has supported the Prisons project in the Western Cape for over two years. Correctional officers are trained as peer educators to act as leaders within the prison community, providing support, education and an example of healthy living to their counterparts.

» Read the full article

Sonke Calls on Men to Join One Billion Rising Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:21; Written by Patrick Madden

On February 14, Sonke took part in the ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Sonke Gender Justice and partners hosted events around the Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg and in Table Mountain and Cape Town CBD. The Cape Town morning event was attended by the Honourable Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini and the Honourable Minister of the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulama Xingwana.

» Read the keynote speech by the DSD Minister Ms Bathabile Dlamini

Sonke's Mbuyiselo Botha on Radio 702

Details: Published on Monday, 04 February 2013 11:32; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke's Mbuyiselo Botha speaks on Radio 702 about our Sonke's “Ring the Bell” campaign, curbing violence against women. Mbuyiselo speaks about the campaign to raise awareness against violence towards women and to get men to be involved in the campaign.

» Listen to the interview (45.57 MB)

Commission for Gender Equality Monitor Facebook Page

Details: Published on Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:18; Written by Patrick Madden

The Women's Legal Centre, who jointly leads the CGE Monitor Campaign with Sonke, has created a CGE Monitor Facebook page. Liking the group will allow you to be kept up to date on CGE Monitor activities, which track and report on the activities of the Commission for Gender Equality to ensure that it fulfils its legal duties to advance gender equality in South Africa.

» Visit the CGE Monitor Campaign Facebook Page to like it.

Public weigh in on the Commission for Gender Equality

Details: Published on Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:30; Written by Londi Gamedze

Today over forty people gathered in Cape Town for the launch of the preliminary report on the 100 Days Monitor of the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The report was published by the CGE Monitor, a collective of organisations concerned with the effectiveness of the CGE. The CGE Monitor seeks to support the CGE and, by monitoring its performance, hold it accountable to its mandate.

One Man Can Provide Care: Small steps to success

Details: Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 10:53; Written by Patrick Madden

A success story from the MenCare programme.

Although many of the activities that will ultimately make up the MenCare programme are still in their infancy, one story from the MenCare Southern Africa programme has stood out for us as an inspiring example of what the programme can achieve.

World AIDS Day and 16 Days of Activism at Malmesbury Prison

Details: Published on Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:13; Written by Londi Gamedze

Written by Hanna Jansson

Sonke Gender Justice Network (Sonke) was invited to attend the Malmesbury prison World AIDS Day event on 27 November 2012. Sonke was represented by Sikhangele Mabulu, Wessel van den Berg, Mzamo Sidelo and Hanna Jansson.

UNFPA and Sonke partner on 19 country meeting on gender transformation in JHB Oct, 2012

Details: Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:09; Written by Patrick Madden

Dear colleagues,

We are very happy to report that we had successful meetings in Johannesburg October 1-5, 2012 on "Gender transformative norms" and "UNAIDS Agenda for accelerated action on HIV for Women and Girls".

Sonke, JDI and Wits Justice Project call for a more independent Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services

Details: Published on Sunday, 11 November 2012 10:51; Written by Patrick Madden

On 30 October, Sonke, JDI and Wits Justice Project made a submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services, urging for a strengthened and more independent Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services.

Invitation to Celebrate 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, 10 December

Details: Published on Sunday, 11 November 2012 10:43; Written by Patrick Madden

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invites you to celebrate Human Rights Day and mark the closure of the campaign "16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence" and pay tribute to Edith Ballantyne.

icon Download the invitation

Learners and Inmates Engage in Debate

Details: Published on Thursday, 01 November 2012 13:24; Written by Londi Gamedze

On Tuesday the 30th October, Sonke's Cape Town prisons team organised an event at Goodwood Correctional Centre that brought together school learners and inmates to discuss issues facing the youth and HIV.

New Sonke-Promundo report on IMAGES report on men, masculinities and GBV in Eastern DRC reveals alarming attitudes about rape amongst many men

Details: Published on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:00; Written by Patrick Madden

In June 2012, Sonke Gender Justice Network, Promundo-US and the Institute for Mental Health of Goma implemented the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) in Goma, North Kivu, DRC.

Sonke's gains support for MMC from SADTU Provincial General Council

Details: Published on Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:48; Written by Patrick Godana

The Provincial General Council (PGC) is one of the most important structures of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) at the provincial level. The PGC sits between the SADTU congresses and its structure is able to make decisions on policy issues including supporting the province's MMC roll-out.

Sonke and Just Detention International Report to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services

Details: Published on Monday, 08 October 2012 12:28; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke has submitted a report with Just Detention International to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services regarding the Department of Correctional Services 2011/2012 Annual Report. This is a precursor to an oral submission on 10 October. The summary is below and the report is available for download.

Gallery: Nyanga Soccer Tournament Festival for Unite As One Campaign

Details: Published on Tuesday, 02 October 2012 15:22; Written by Patrick Madden

Sonke Gender Justice Network 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 celebration of Heritage Day.

Schools Battle Teen Pregnancies

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 September 2012 16:57; Written by Super User

Published in The New Age
3 Sept 2012
by Francis Hweshe

Activist group Sonke Gender Justice Network has lashed out at “sugar daddies” amid attempts by a city school to contain learner pregnancies due to irresponsible sexual behaviour.

Principal at Maitland Seconday School Riedwaan Kenny said seven girls in his school have fallen pregnant since the beginning of the year and a local clinic also raised concerns about a large number of learners from the school who approach them seeking to terminate their pregnancies.

MenEngage Africa youth tell their stories

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 September 2012 16:51; Written by Londi Gamedze

Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, South Africa, Rwanda... these are the home countries of the ten participants from the MenEngage Africa network who took part in the recent Digital Stories workshop in August 2012. Young Africans working on issues related to gender-based violence were selected to craft a personal story about gender-based violence using images, footage and a recorded narrative.

Fatherhood groups poised to kick off

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 September 2012 13:15; Written by Wessel Van Den Berg

The MenCare campaign, launched on 8 August 2011 in Soweto, has just celebrated its first South African birthday. The first year focused on two dimensions: shifting social norms through media such as radio and print, and establishing relationships with policymakers for advocacy and lobbying. The new year was entered by adding the third dimension of community mobilisation to the policy and media work.

Shad K: “Keep Shining” – a voice from the margins

Details: Published on Monday, 27 August 2012 18:42; Written by Patrick Madden

Rap and hip-hop music is frequently criticized for its misogynist treatment of women. Many popular songs in this music genre reveal aggressive and sometimes violent attitudes towards women, with women being depicted solely as sexual objects, commonly called derogatory names such “bitches” and “hoes,” and in extreme cases, deserving forms of violence for disobeying. Along with such explicit lyrics, are regular images of scantily dressed women in the music videos, usually surrounding one or two men, where they are often portrayed in highly objectifying and demeaning ways.

Sonke and Just Detention International launch training guide on sexual violence in prisons

Details: Published on Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:15; Written by Londi Gamedze

On August 22, 2012, about fifty people – activists, researchers, Department of Correctional Services and Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services officials – gathered to celebrate the launch of a new training guide written in partnership by Sonke and Just Detention International (JDI).

Malmesbury Inmates Graduate as Peer Educators

Details: Published on Friday, 20 July 2012 17:45; Written by Londi Gamedze

A gorgeously warm and sunny day in the middle of Cape Town’s grey and rainy winter signaled an important day for over 40 inmates at Malmesbury Medium A prison. These inmates were soon-to-be graduates from Sonke’s prisons Peer Educator training programme.

Youth Lekgotla – Sonke Gender Justice Network - 27 June 2012

Details: Published on Friday, 29 June 2012 13:36; Written by Sikhangele Mabulu

During June each year, youth month, the youth of yesteryear is often lauded for its efforts, while the youth of today are criticized for lacking the will and drive to change their situation, circumstances and communities. The obstacles faced by the youth of today relate to teenage pregnancy, HIV, and inadequate sex and reproductive health (SRH) services.

Rape is Rape no matter who the victim is

Details: Published on Friday, 22 June 2012 17:35; Written by Super User

by David Friedman and Rachel Fleder

Protestors met outside the Wynberg Magistrate Courthouse on the 7th June, 2012 where the case of Ntsiki Tyatyeka, of Nyanga, was convened. Tyatyeka, who openly identified as a lesbian, disappeared on 6 September, 2010 and was last seen walking into the home of a neighbour. To the horror of her friends and family, Tyatyeka’s remains were later found in a dust bin at the neighbour’s residence. The police took the owner of the home into custody and charged him with the murder of Tyatyeka, though he denied having any knowledge of her whereabouts.

Ubuntu has no boundaries: World Refugee Day Conference, 20 June 2012

Details: Published on Friday, 22 June 2012 17:11; Written by Super User

by Rachel Fleder and David Friedman

During the opening address of the World Refugee Day conference, hosted in Seapoint, Cape Town on 20 June 2012, the regional representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees set the tone by stating that anyone may become a refugee. He asked the audience to reflect on what they would do if they were one day forced to leave their homes and seek asylum in another country. He concluded his welcoming address by calling on the government to strengthen its commitment to the 1951 and 1969 conventions on refugee rights, which reinforced the protections afforded by the Constitution for asylum seekers in South Africa.

Celebrating Youth Month at Goodwood Correctional Facility

Details: Published on Friday, 22 June 2012 16:51; Written by Helen Alexander

June is youth month, and across the country events have been taking place to celebrate, commemorate and honour the important youth activism of 1976. The youth debate, hosted by the Goodwood Correctional Centre on 19 June, was one of these. During the event, learners from Hecter Petersen High School in Kraaifontein debated questions around youth, employment, poverty and education with inmates from the Centre, who are currently studying towards their matrics.

Happy Father's Day

Details: Published on Friday, 15 June 2012 16:30; Written by Helen Alexander

This Father's day, Sonke is celebrating the wonderful fathers in all our lives. Some of us grew up with amazing fathers. Others of us were raised by remarkable single mothers but have to come to be fathers ourselves or are raising children with men who are great fathers. Some Sonke staff members have even seen their own sons become fathers!

Dramatic events at the NCOP meeting in Parliament on 30th May

Details: Published on Saturday, 02 June 2012 09:35; Written by Super User

The rural people who spoke out against the TCB during the provincial hearings won a major victory on Wednesday when the Provinces submitted their negotiating mandates. Four provinces rejected the Bill outright, namely the Eastern Cape, North West, Gauteng and Western Cape. The mandate of the Eastern Cape states that, “no amount of amendments and redrafting can salvage this Bill”.

Ground Up Reporters on the Mess that is The Maitland Refugee Reception Centre

Details: Published on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:36; Written by Helen Alexander

Sonke intern, Veronica Washaya, is currently participating in the six-month Ground Up training programme to develop community journalists.

This week, the Ground Up team has published a series of articles on the Maitland Refugee Centre exposing abuse and corruption and highlighting the extremely difficult circumstances that refugees face.

Joint Submission to Porfolio Committe on Sexual Offences Amendment Act

Details: Published on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:56; Written by Vital Kabamba Mabondo

Sonke has joined UWC and UCT in a joint submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development on the Sexual Offences Act Amendment Bill. The Amendment Bill proposes appropriate penalties for particular sexual offences, following the findings in the Prince case that portions of the Act were not clear enough.

Sonke Men Pay Homage to the Mothers of South Africa

Details: Published on Sunday, 13 May 2012 18:23; Written by Tanya Charles

There is little doubt that year upon year, Mother's Day celebrations highlight what many of us know to be a fundamental truth in our lives: that without the love, support and insurmountable sacrifices of our mothers, we would not be the people we are today. Whether they are our biological mothers, or take the form of a grandmother, aunt or sister, their positive influence has shaped our existence in very central and enduring ways. This is a reality well acknowledged by the staff at the Sonke Gender Justice Network, where the men relish at the opportunity to remember mothers in all their beauty, strength and wisdom on this Mother’s Day.

Sonke Documentary to feature in Encounters Film Fest!

Details: Published on Monday, 07 May 2012 09:41; Written by Londi Gamedze

The film, Can't Just Fold Your Arms, will air at the Encounters Film Festival in June on three screens around the country. It’s a wonderful opportunity for Sonke to tell our story and to educate people about our work engaging men and boys for gender equality.

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