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tameTimes - 27 August 2015

Mosekari Secondary School and Utlwanang Ladies Young Women’s Club in Makouspan, have developed a relationship that will give support to young people in grades 8 and 9.

Time to put the brakes on SA's big drinking

Opinion piece by Dr Sue Goldstein (Executive: Monitoring & Evaluation at the Soul City Institute, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health at University of the Witwatersrand)

South Africa is amongst the nations with the highest drinking levels. Do we drink too much though and if so, why is that? We're joined by Savera Kalideen from Soul City and Zodwa Ntuli from the Department of Trade and Industry.

Rise Club forming partnerships

Unity Ladies Rise Young Womens Club in Makouspan, North West formed a partnership with their local clinic. Club members started assisting nurses in the clinic with Health talks. The talks will take place on Mondays and Fridays, where they will be covering different topic.

New initiative launched in Cape Town: KWANELE! Communities Ensuring Safe Learning Environments for Girls

The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (SCI) in partnership with Grassroot Soccer South Africa (GRS), and supported by Comic Relief, proudly launched the KWANELE! Project in Khayelitsha on 31st July 2015 as part of the Sexual Violence in Schools in South Africa (SeVissa) initiative.

Sowetan - 18 August 2015

Kathlehong Rise Young Women march to SAPS around Gender-based violence and sexual assault in the community

This initiative was initiated by Katlehong Rise Young Women Group Supported By: Katlehong Local AIDS Council, Leratong Child Rescue and Advisory Center, People Opposed to Women Abuse, Treatment Action Campaign and Ubuhle Bezulu Original Gospel Singers.

Rise Young Women’s Clubs Women’s Days activities

Women’s Day weekend of 2015 we saw Club members in action commemorating Women Day. They were engaged in various activities throughout South Africa

‘Kwanele’ as voices speak out against gender based violence

Two organisations have collaborated in one solid voice to find ways of decreasing the high level of gender-based violence and sexual violence in 20 Khayelitsha schools.

Athlone News - 29 July 2015

Soul City hosts roundtable dialogues on alcohol in 5 provinces

Soul City held a series of very successful and well represented public dialogues and training workshops around alcohol in the five provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal, Eastern Cape and Free State.