Category: South Africa

South Africa is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, marked by several distinct ecosystems. Inland safari destination Kruger National Park is populated by big game. The Western Cape offers beaches, lush winelands around Stellenbosch and Paarl, craggy cliffs at the Cape of Good Hope, forest and lagoons along the Garden Route, and the city of Cape Town, beneath flat-topped Table Mountain.
Capitals: Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein
Currency: South African rand
Population: 57.78 million (2018) World Bank

Prohibiting Corporal Punishment is Crucial To Ending Violence against Children in South Africa

November 18, 2015 Global Author

Today, Sonke Gender Justice in collaboration with Africa Child Policy Forum, The Africa Experts Committee on the Rights and the Welfare of the Child, Child Helpline International, Plan International, Save the Children and UNICEF launched the Action on Violence against Children campaign. This is a multi-country campaign initially focusing on Kenya, Tanzania, Swaziland, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi and Zambia.... Read More

A Black South African Woman’s Journey to Atheism

November 17, 2015 Global Author

South Africa is one of the least religious countries in Africa. About 15 percent of the population identifies as having no religious affiliation and that includes atheists. While some would argue that the country’s non-theistic demography is mainly white, there is a growing number of black South Africans who are atheists and who do not profess any religion. So, the... Read More

South Africa should embrace African unity, to protect the rights and security of all foreign nationals

May 22, 2015 Global Author

Monday, May 25, is “Africa Day,” and Sonke urges the South African government to take urgent steps to repair relations with other countries in Africa, and to embrace African unity, amidst serious xenophobic violence and government crackdowns targeting African and Asian migrants in South Africa.Africa Day is the commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU),... Read More

South Africa arrests hundreds over xenophobic violence

April 20, 2015 Global AuthorApartheid, Durban, Johannesburg, South Africa, violence, Xenophobia, Zuma

Police arrest more than 300 for crimes against migrants, after violence kills eight and displaces more than 1,000. South Africa’s government has vowed to crack down on xenophobic violence, after arresting more than 300 people for a range of crimes against migrants. Authorities said on Sunday in Johannesburg that 307 suspects had been arrested for a range of xenophobic-related crimes.… Read More

South Africa to probe spy cables leak

February 25, 2015 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, spies

. View photo Rwanda’s former army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa walks into court in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 21, 2012 (AFP Photo/Alexander Joe) Johannesburg (AFP) – South Africa has launched an investigation into the leak of espionage secrets to an international television news channel and a British newspaper, the state security minister said Wednesday. “A full investigation… Read More

South Africa: The State versus identity Document (ID)

February 6, 2015 Global AuthorGender Justice, Sex Change, South Africa, South Africa ID's

Cape Town, 6 February: South African citizens can do almost nothing without an Identity Document (ID). People whose ID particulars do not match their gender identity, gender expression and ultimately who they are, face obstruction, regular ridicule and discrimination. When the power of the state and the public sector control, rather than serve an individual’s most fundamental resource— their body—... Read More

Sonke Gender Justice condemns the outbreak of xenophobic violence in Gauteng

January 27, 2015 Global AuthorGauteng, South Africa, xenophobic violence

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) joins fellow human rights activists around the globe to condemn in the strongest possible terms the violence against non-South African individuals living and working within our borders and calls on our government to take urgent action to both protect all people in South Africa, and to prosecute strongly those perpetrating violence against others. . Read More

SA heads for new DRC war

January 14, 2015 Global AuthorDRC, FDLR, Kagame, Kerry, Obama, Rebels, Rwanda, South Africa, UN, Zuma

South Africa has 1000 troops in the DRC as part of the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade, which is tasked with “neutralising” threats to the region. File photoImage by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS The government yesterday announced that a confrontation with Forces for Democratic Liberation of Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo was “inevitable”. Four thousand FDLR soldiers, many of… Read More

SA deports Malawians for staying illegally as more wait at detention immigration centre

March 13, 2014 Global AuthorHudson Mankhwala, Malawi, Malawi Migration to SA, South Africa

BLANTYRE--Malawians who were staying in South Africa without valid travel documents have arrived in the country following the sweeping exercise which is taking place in richest African country. Malawi’s Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala has confirmed the development. According to Mankhwala, the deportees were staying in South Africa without ‘valid work permits and travel documents. . Read More

South Africa drops the Traditional Courts bill from legislation

February 22, 2014 Global Author

Sonke Gender Justice notes with great elation the lapsing from the legislative processes of the mooted Traditional Courts Bill (TCB). We particularly note the gallant resistance by the Alliance for Rural Democracy, and in particular, rural women who stood to be the most affected. "The campaign against the TCB saw a rare moment of politics of principles triumphing those of... Read More