By Bonke Sonjani and Mogau Makitla In commemoration of National Human Rights Day- which took place on the 21st of March 2025, Iranti hosted a panel discussion on How the Trump Administration Affects Trans and Intersex People. We were joined by civil society organisations such as Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), Parents, Families…
Growing up in Otse in Botswana, Iranti’s new LBQ Rights officer – Matlhogonolo Samsam, has always had an interest in human rights issues and saw herself growing up to become a diplomat. To her surprise, she found herself working at a rugby club for the first four years of her career. It was only when…
by Dimakatso ‘Garfield’ Sebidi I am unshakable. I am unstoppable. I am God-fearing. And I am proudly intersex. I was treated differently because I am different. This is because I was born with two genitals. I spent the first six years of my life in and out of Baragwanath –which is now called…
On September 12th, the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) organised a significant webinar titled Eliminating Harmful Practices against and Promoting Human Rights Protection of Intersex People. This event was part of the ERC’s National Laws and Policies Thematic Group and was held in collaboration with LSVD, the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human…
PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 JANUARY 2023 . On the 16th of January 2023, Ntsiki Mazwai published a problematic and hurtful tweet asserting the harmful and ungrounded view that women’s rights are threatened by trans rights. She wrote…
Lesbian, bisexual and queer(LBQ) organising has been on a steady rise for the past two decades with a 2020 report by Astraea and Mama Cash, “Vibrant Yet Under-Resourced: The State of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Movements”, finding that 89% of LBQ groups had been founded in the last twenty years. Despite the clear and urgent…
Violence, institutionalised discrimination and unequal healthcare are just some of the issues the LGBTQIA+ community continuously has to fight. Iranti Executive Director Jabu Pereira points out that building our community in a hostile environment is often difficult. “We are either fighting the medical world and changing their hearts and minds and now we have this…
By Welcome Mandla Lishivha Has the Constitution fulfilled its promise of dignity for all? This was the question posed at a “We The People Round Table Series” hosted by Constitution Hill and the Nelson Mandela Foundation on 21 May 2021 on Zoom. The discussion took place twenty-five years after the South African Constitution came into…
In late 2020 and early 2021, members of the Iranti team had the great privilege of traveling across South Africa on a partnership-building and fact-finding mission as part of our ongoing Margins to Mainstream project. The project, which seeks to more effectively document and respond to trans, gender-diverse and intersex rights violations in Gauteng, North…
MEDIA STATEMENT 16 May 2021 For immediate release Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders On 5 May, civil society organisations (CSOs) from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTIQ+) sector met online with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, and other members…
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