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SA Constitution : A non-racial effort
FRANNY RABKIN SA’s political tumult loomed large at Liliesleaf Farm in Johannesburg on Thursday as a group of business, legal and intellectual leaders came together to form a new civil society body to promote the constitution and guard against what the Congress of South African…
Author: BusinessDay
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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South Africa Journal: Engaged Activism Bends the Arc Toward Hope
I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Original Source by CELEAN JACOBSON Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered “manly” in his rural South African village: He raped…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
Author: Gerald Kraak
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As 2009 Nears, Stresses Vie with Opportunities for Atlantic and its Grantees
As 2008 draws to a close, organisations, just like individuals, should take a moment to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the year that is ending, and prepare for the one ahead. I’d like to do that, in this final column of an eventful…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Fair Representation for All
By Fiona MacLeod WinnerDr Ivan May Memorial AwardProBono.Org When horse-riding instructor and stable manager Gary Allpass won his legal case earlier this year for being unfairly dismissed because he is HIV-positive, he set an important precedent for others in a similar position. His legal representation…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Social Justice: A Guiding Vision for Atlantic’s Final Chapter
All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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