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Iranti hosts media briefing on Home Affairs’s ID Gender Policy

On Monday 8 March 2021, Iranti hosted an online press briefing for invited journalists and media houses to outline the proposed Identity Management Policy gazetted by the Department of Home Affairs. The deadline for public submissions to oidmpolicy@dha.org.za had been extended to 15 March, and with the proposal having already garnered significant attention from the…

Letter Of Invitation From Iranti To Engage With Podcast And Chill With MacG

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 January 2021 Dear Macgyver “MacG” Mukwevho and Sol Phenduka Iranti – a Johannesburg based organisation dedicated to defending the rights of transgender persons, and the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community as a whole are concerned by the transphobic comments you have made during episode 220 of Podcast and Chill with MacG….

THERE IS POWER IN THE COLLAR: Iranti film screening at JFF!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 November 2020 IRANTI FEATURE FILM TRACKING THE DECRIMINIALISATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN BOTSWANA SCREENS AT JFF Download the original copy of this press statement here. Iranti, a Johannesburg-based LGBT media-advocacy organization, will debut its first feature film, There Is Power In The Collar, at the Joburg Film Festival this November. The premiere…

STATEMENT: STILL NO ARRESTS A MONTH AFTER THE MURDER OF NARE MPHELA

S 4 February 2020 – Iranti attended the funeral of Nare Mphela, a fierce activist who fought for her right to education by taking her school and the principal to the Equality Court and subsequently winning that case in 2017. The funeral took place in her home village in GaMahlala where she was also laid…

STATEMENT: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CONTINUES INTO 2020

STATEMENT: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CONTINUES INTO 2020 Iranti mourns the murders of three queer womxn.  9 January 2020 – Mmmabatho “Madonna” James left her family home for the last time when she went out to buy cigarettes with an acquaintance on 29 November 2019, this was the last time Madonna’s family and friends would see…

[PRESS RELEASE] Iranti commemorates the 21st TDOR

Today marks another Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR). TDOR began in 1998 as a campaign to mourn and politicise the death of transgender lives. This year, the 21st commemoration of TDOR, is also deadliest year on record for transgender people worldwide.  The TDOR 2019 update has revealed a total of 331 cases of reported killings…

IRANTI AND PARTNER ORGANISATIONS LAUNCHES SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND FREEDOM STUDY AND MEDIA GUIDE

On 5 November 2019, Iranti launched the Safety, Dignity, and Freedom (SDF) research report that combines a baseline survey of existing mainstream media coverage of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) with focus-group discussions to understand the experiences of LGBTI+ individuals and their interactions with mainstream media in each of the five countries….

[PRESS RELEASE] INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY 2019

Intersex Awareness Day falls on 26 October. This year, Intersex South Africa (ISSA) and Iranti call for tangible action from the government of South Africa in the form of policy review and reform as well as the creation of strong legislative and policy frameworks that promote and protect the rights of intersex persons.  Globally, intersex…

Iranti and ISSA speak with SAHRC on intersex rights

Words and photo by Rumana Akoob Iranti visited the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Friday, 23 August 2019, to conduct a workshop on Intersex rights in South Africa. Nthabiseng Mokoena from Intersex South Africa (ISSA) first took SAHRC staff through pronouns, and current understandings of gender and sex. They explained how most peoples’…