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PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT

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…

No Cause For Celebration – Johannesburg Community Vigil

By Nomsa Manzini LGBTI+ activists from across Gauteng gathered at Constitution Hill on Wednesday April 26 to call for #JusticeForQueerSA. People gathered from early in the evening. Iranti Programmes Manager Ntuthuzo Ndzomo said the queer community needed to unite to fight hate crimes. “We must challenge government officials to take a stand on hate crimes,”…

“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”

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…

Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders

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…

The LGBTIQ+ Community Comes Together To Say “Enough Is Enough”

Iranti joined representatives of civil society stakeholders in Gauteng on Wednesday to host a press conference highlighting the brutal Hate Crimes witnessed across the country in recent weeks. Iranti, Out LGBT, GALA, FEW, and The Other Foundation met media at Constitutional Hill to call on the government and police to take serious action against the…

JOINT STATEMENT: SPATE OF HATE CRIME MURDERS – LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE SAY MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE

South Africa, it is enough 21 APRIL 2021 – Over the past two and half months, South Africa’s LGBTIQ+ community has been rocked by a series of brutal hate crimes against its members – from KwaZulu-Natal to Gauteng, from the Eastern Cape to the Western Cape. At least six lives – that we know of…

[PRESS STATEMENT] Iranti demands action on attacks on the LGBTI community

15 April 2021 Iranti supports the LGBTI community of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in their quest for justice for murdered Andile Lulu Ntuthela and their efforts to demand a society that values the lives of all people. The remains of Ntuthela were discovered this week in a shallow grave at the house of the…

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…