Nearly 20% of South Africans are substance abusers. This is costing the state some 40-billion-rand per annum. The rise of illicit drugs like tik, nyaope and sugars suggest we're losing the war on drugs. But have we bungled up the way we treat substance abuse?
The Soul City Institute for Social Justice held a women’s month event to honour Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s feminist legacy at the Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg on August 08, under the theme “Amplifying and multiplying Mama Winnie’s feminist legacy”.
Soul City Institute for Social Justice is inviting proposal from qualified consultants who have experience in the NGO/development sector to come and assess the effectiveness of the Finance and Procurement/Contracts Units to meet donor regulations in an efficient and cost effective manner.
Soul City supports the #TotalShutdown called by women on 1 August 2018. We support it because we are tired.
Qalo, in conjunction with Soul City, aims to fundraise for and distribute 500 'dignity' boxes to women's shelters in Gauteng during Women's Month, August 2018.
SCI would like to appoint a consultant who has experience in grant-making in the NGO/development sector to come and assess the effectiveness of the Finance and Procurement/Contracts and identify strategies to improve the efficiency of the Finance and Procurement Units with due regard to the environment in which these units operate.
Our message to decision- and change-makers everywhere is simple: together, we can ¬unleash the transformational power of Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) to address the challenges facing the global community today.
A ground-breaking South to South partnership has won the global Womanity Award 2018 announced at the Tech4Dev UNESCO Conference, Lausanne.
In her talk she speaks about the power of storytelling in women’s fight to be freed from the fear of rape and violence, and to write the story of their own lives.
South Africa has one of the highest per capita rates of women being killed by their partners according to the statistics provided by the South African Medical Research Council.
The Soul City Institute for Social Justice joins the calls by civil society to have Mduduzi Manana removed from parliament as a repeat perpetrator of gender-based violence. We further endorse the complaint filed by Sonke Gender Justice against Mr Manana with the Parliamentary Ethics Committee.
Speaking at the Social & Behavior Change Communication Summit in Bali, Lillian Dube opened up about her role as Sister Bettina, her battle with (and triumph over) cancer, and got attendees thinking and talking about their role in driving social behavior changes.
Watch this moving tribut by poet Lebo Mashile to late struggle hero Winnie Madikizela-Mandela with a poem from Alice Walker.
The national budget of any country is, in essence, a statement of value of its government and vicariously of the key power players and ‘influencers’ in that society. The budget delivered by former Minister of Finance, Malusi Gigaba, was delivered in the context of political transition, uncertainty and the notion of a ‘hole in the fiscus’ due to a global and national financial and economic crises, as well as money lost to the fiscus due to state capture and corruption.
Tribute to Ma Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Lebo Ramafoko - CEO of Soul City
Raising Voices for Young Women and Girls Advocates were part of the Human Rights Festival hosted by the South African Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg. With funding from the European Union, SCI has partnered with Women’s Net and Masimanyane Women’s Rights International to birth the Raising Voices of Young Women and Girls programme which focuses on democracy, governance, human rights and advocacy. The programme is run in the North West, Free State and Mpumalanga provinces.
