Tag Archives: South Africa

Our policy team have been hard at work on a fantastic new Women’s Rights Advocacy Toolkit which will help women’s rights activists all over the world to campaign for change.

Volunteer Katrina French reflects on a speech by Andrew Mitchell MP on the government’s commitment to women, and asks what it means for Womankind partners in South Africa.

Our South African partner the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) have helped to reverse the decision in a landmark rape case.

Programme Manager Tsitisi Matekaire describes a recent workshop in South Africa with Womankind partners from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and South Africa.

South Africa is now an ‘Upper Middle Income Country’ – so should Womankind pull out, job done, and move onto a poorer, more needy country?

We met with our partner based in Cape Town, the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC). They took us to Khayelitsa to show us first hand some of the services they offer to women.

I remember thinking for many years that I couldn’t imagine apartheid ending in my lifetime, but if enough people care and take action, unimaginable things can happen.