Duration: 3 Months (Applicant must be available to start immediately) Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multi-media storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens, often with LGBTI-sector partners, across…
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…
IRANTI PUBLIC CALL FOR 2019 BOARD MEMBERS – FINANCE POSITION: Iranti has a vacancy for a Board Member to serve in the position of Treasurer. Iranti is a registered Non Profit. The Board comprises of seven-member and the Executive Director. Iranti is a Johannesburg based regional non-profit organisation (NPO) founded in June 2012 to focus…
Beverley Ditsie, a pioneering queer activist who was one of the founders of the first Pride March in Hillbrow shared a poignant letter on Facebook about the state of Pride in Johannesburg. This was shared prior an interview with Iranti Director Jabulani Pereira on Eusebius Mckaiser’s 702 talk show about the history of pride in…
Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multi-media storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens, often with LGBTI-sector partners, across the region and beyond. We have a ten-person team and…
Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multi-media storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens, often with LGBTI-sector partners, across the region and beyond. We have a ten-person team and…
________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release: 25 September 2019 On Monday 23 September 2019, the Equality Court in the Western Cape handed down its judgment in the matter of September vs Subramoney N.O and Others. Ms. September is a transgender woman currently serving a prison sentence inside a male correctional facility. While incarcerated, prison officials denied her…
South Africa is a nation with an intimate relationship with violence. Violence colours our social imaginary in ways that cross-cut gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race. The violence that we interact with either as perpetrators or victims is rooted in histories of apartheid and colonial subjugation in no small way. Since 1994 South Africa has seen…
On Monday, 2 September 2019, the government tweeted out a statement telling womxn to “not allow themselves to become victims by keeping quiet,” Iranti condemns these statements and call on all government departments to take active steps to prevent violence. We demand that all men in the country stop meting out violence towards womxn, especially Black…
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’…
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