PRESS RELEASE 14 APRIL 2022 In October 2021 Iranti announced that its founding Director, Jabu Pereira would step down and exit the organisation. Today we announce the appointment of Nolwazi Tusini, Iranti’s Communications and Media Manager, and Jade Jacobs, Iranti’s Knowledge and Research Manager, as Iranti’s interim Co-Executive Directors. Tusini and Jacobs, both fierce feminists…
On 31 March 2022, as part of the Transgender Day of Visibility celebration, Iranti partnered with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to invite trans and gender diverse people living in Johannesburg to come to the House of Iranti where DHA officials were on site, providing assistance and information with forename and gender marker amendments….
In celebration of (International) Transgender Day of Visibility (31 March), Iranti has teamed up with theDepartment of Home Affairs (DHA) to offer Identity Document applications as well as assistance with gendermarker and/or name changes to transgender persons at our offices – House of Iranti. Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day dedicated to celebrating…
WHO WE ARE Iranti was founded in 2012 with the greatest visionary intention to create authentic stories on the lived experiences of Lesbian, Trans and Intersex persons in Africa. Iranti is a Yoruba word, which means memory. Iranti was formed to imagine a world free of homophobia, transphobia and intersexphobia. Iranti is managed and led…
PRESS RELEASE28 MARCH 2022 Iranti welcomes cabinet’s approval of the Identity Management policy which seeks to ensure the protectionof the rights of Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary persons. South Africa!s Constitution defines equality as“the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and liberties”. We are pleased that the Department of Home Affairs is proposing a progressive…
21 March 2022 For immediate release 62 years after the Sharpville Massacre of 21 March 1960, Iranti joins South Africa in commemorating Human Rights Day, remembering the lives lost fighting for the abolition of pass laws in Apartheid South Africa. The Sharpeville Massacre – as with other liberation struggles – points to the struggle in…
If we were to imagine a gender-equal world, what would it look like? For speakers on the Iranti International Women’s Day Twitter Space held on March 8, it would be a world where womanhood is inclusive and diverse. Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana Acting Education, Awareness and Communications Manager Matlhogonolo Samsam said she imagines a world where…
After Iranti made an urgent appeal to President Cyril Ramaphosa to address issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week, under the theme “Following up on our commitments: making your future work better”, the organisation was deeply disappointed by the complete lack of acknowledgement regarding the queer community…
PRESS RELEASE 11 FEBRUARY 2022 Iranti notes with great disappointment and a measure of sadness that President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again rendered LGBTIQ persons invisible by failing to address the needs of the LGBTIQ community in yet another State of Nation Address (SONA). For LGBTIQ persons the parliamentary fire is symbolic of more than…
PRESS RELEASE 9 FEBRUARY 2022 Iranti is making an urgent appeal to President Cyril Ramaphosa to address issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 10 February 2022. The theme for this year’s SONA is, “Following up on our commitments: making your future work better”. Our constitution commits to…
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