Photos by: Gillian Schutte Sikhala Sonke invited media and public to bear witness to their lives in Marikana in August 2014.
Category: Gender
Marikana Widows Shed Tears in Women’s Month
By Gillian Schutte: Picture credit: Women were left carrying the burden in Marikana, courtesy Gillian Schutte This women’s month marks two years since the Marikana massacre. The widows of the workers killed…
Victims of witch-hunts in South Africa are ignored.
By: Damon Leff A recent MWEB radio advert and the response from City Press demonstrated how human rights abuses resulting from accusations of witchcraft in South Africa are dismissed in favour of…
Pride does justice proud
11 Oct 2013 00:00 Gillian Schutte in Mail & Guardian A new movement for sexual minorities has spurned big business to fight broader social ills, writes Gillian Schutte. The first Johannesburg People’s…
67 Minutes of Shame: Homophobic Hate Crimes Go Unnoticed
“Africa your silence is loud! Speak out against patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia.”
Lack of service delivery and women
This clip is from the documentary Transforming informal settlements – The Grootboom case, and The forgotten place. It looks at the particular impact poverty and lack of services has on women.
Lack of service delivery and women
Womens’ sense of dignity compromised by lack of basic services A trip into any of the hundreds of informal settlements in South Africa is a brutal reminder of the need to highlight…