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….
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…
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…
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…
Iranti’s new Comms and Media Manager Nolwazi Tusini hopes to make a meaningful mark in queer spaces by documenting stories of joy, influencing conversations about gender and gender-based violence, and raising the profile of a 10-year-old organisation. “I left the newsroom after 10 years as a broadcast journalist, looking for a new challenge and I…
Changing spaces for inclusion Throughout his corporate career, Dibabatso Baloyi made inclusion and diversity a core part of his work. “For me, inclusion and diversity are important, not only for our community but for every individual […] At the end of the day, working does not need gender nor sexuality,” Baloyi says. Now as an…
When Zoey Black decided to move from the performance stage to behind the scenes, she wanted to spotlight queer experiences – something that impacted her directly as a transgender woman. “As a queer person, I really struggled with content or resources that spoke to my experience as a trans woman and at the time, I…
Growing up in Khayelitsha, Western Cape South Africa, Ntuthuzo Ndzomo knew he was living in an unequal world. “In primary school, I already knew that there was an issue of inequality within my community and other communities, and that’s when I started getting involved in the civil society sector,” he said. After joining Equal Education…
On 5 November 2019, Iranti launched the Safety, Dignity, and Freedom (SDF) research report that combines a baseline survey of existing mainstream media coverage of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) with focus-group discussions to understand the experiences of LGBTI+ individuals and their interactions with mainstream media in each of the five countries….
IRANTI URGES SOUTH AFRICA GOVERNMENT AND MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION TO SUPPORT THE RENEWAL OF THE MANDATE OF THE UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON PROTECTION AGAINST VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY 1. On 11 -12 July 2019, the United Nation Human…
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