President Ramaphosa’s warning of the end of COVID19 relief grants puts community organisations on high alert. The bigger their role in helping the desperate, the more critical the need for donor support. While the COVID19 pandemic has claimed 47,000 lives in South Africa, the many more it has left on
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Hlanganisa seeks to recruit consultants: various positions
This year Hlanganisa Institute for Development Southern Africa celebrates fifteen years of existence as a champion for the rights of marginalized groups. Having started in 2006 as Hivos South Africa, Hlanganisa has grown into a South African civil society organization grounded in the challenges and opportunities of many South Africans
Looking back, to help us look forward
Dear Partners, It is difficult to usher in the new year without reflecting on the one past. For many of us, 2020 was challenging on several fronts. We were faced with the struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing environment with insufficient knowledge and little predictability. The world as we
Hlanganisa Vacancies
Hlanganisa Institute for Development in Southern Africa: Various Positions Hlanganisa Institute for Development in Southern Africa (Hlanganisa) is an innovative intermediary grantmaker whose vision is to strengthen community and civil society voice. Through supporting social accountability initiatives and promoting human rights in pursuit of social justice in Southern Africa. Hlanganisa
#OPINION: Funding needed for women’s shelters
My family and I recently went through a gruelling experience of domestic violence perpetrated against a close relative. Unfortunately, because this was a family member who had been warned against what most of us characterised as “crazy love”, it was difficult to sympathise with her victimhood. Without realising it, we
ARE WE PLASTERING OVER SOCIAL ILLS
Growing up, it was not uncommon to hear the phrase “men are dogs” – often used by many of my matriarch during those acute episodes of romantic relationships gone wrong. I never took it literally and neither did I apply my mind to what they were implying, until I suffered