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		<title>Press Statement:  Statement on the untimely passing of Imam Muhsin Hendricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[18 February 2025 We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, who was brutally murdered on Saturday, 15 February, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The targeted attack on the faith-based leader, highlights growing concerns about violent crimes and the safety of civilians in South Africa. Imam Muhsin Hendricks dedicated his...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Cause For Celebration &#8211; Johannesburg Community Vigil</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/no-cause-for-celebration-johannesburg-community-vigil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 07:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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,”...]]></description>
		
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		<title>“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 12:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Webseries: Road Trip For Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 07:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDIA STATEMENT&#160; 16 May 2021&#160; For immediate release&#160; Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders&#160; 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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The LGBTIQ+ Community Comes Together To Say “Enough Is Enough”</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/the-lgbtiq-community-comes-together-to-say-enough-is-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>JOINT STATEMENT: SPATE OF HATE CRIME MURDERS  &#8211; LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE SAY MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/joint-statement-spate-of-hate-crime-murders-lgbtiq-people-say-more-needs-to-be-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[South Africa, it is enough 21 APRIL 2021 &#8211; Over the past two and half months, South Africa&#8217;s LGBTIQ+ community has been rocked by a series of brutal hate crimes against its members &#8211; from KwaZulu-Natal to Gauteng, from the Eastern Cape to the Western Cape. At least six lives &#8211; that we know of...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Farewell to an Elder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Community pays tribute to a beloved LGBTI son By Sibusiso Kheswa Friends, family, activists, and community members gathered in KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, April 17, to say goodbye to a beloved son murdered earlier in the month.Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela was remembered as a young leader who set an example for...]]></description>
		
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		<title>[PRESS STATEMENT] Iranti demands action on attacks on the LGBTI community</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/press-statement-iranti-demands-action-on-attacks-on-the-lgbti-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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