IJR Press Statement on Mugabe’s Resignation in Zimbabwe
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) joins Zimbabweans at [...]
Recognising 10 young activists who are doing exceptional work towards achieving Gender Justice and Reconciliation in Africa
An initiative to recognise 10 young activists who are doing exceptional work towards achieving Gender Justice and Reconciliation in Africa.
Teachers as Agents of Social Change in South Africa
Research conducted by the Centre for International Teacher Education(CITE) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) reveals that teachers in South Africa are located and navigate through starkly different contexts with various amounts of resources. Teachers, however, exercise their roles as agents of social justice and cohesion within the particular constraints of their diverse contexts and often need to disrupt inherited patterns of exclusion and injustice....
Challenging the erasure of historical knowledge rendering Queerness as “unAfrican” & highlighting the continued plight of African Queers
According to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), 33 African countries have laws that criminalise queerness. Last month, 13 people were arrested in Tanzania and accused of “promoting homosexuality”. In countries like Mauritania..
Black Women and the Struggle: Marginalization, Poverty, and Patriarchy
On the 25th of October, IJR in partnership with the African Film Network hosted a screening of the documentary Winnie which was followed by a dialogue titled; Black Women and the Struggle: Marginalization, Poverty, and Patriarchy. In South Africa, the stories of Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Charlotte Maxeke, Sibongile Khumalo, Thenjiwe Mtintso, Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, to name a few, been left out of the mainstream historical narrative that is taught to young people...
The Genocide of the Rohingya people: Being accustomed to injustice and the urgent need for moral leadership
The UN has referred to the crisis and forced migration of the Rohingya people as “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” but remains the untransformed global structure, failing to take bold action yet again against another atrocity being committed, is troubling. There is a lack of decisive action on behalf of the international community in this case, which could be regarded as an extension of...
Press Release: Reconciliation and Development Working Paper Series – Towards a social cohesion index for South Africa using SARB data
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) hereby wishes to inform members of the media of the launch of its latest research publication- the Reconciliation and Development working paper series.
An engagement on the private sector’s role in inclusive development
On the 21st of September, the IJR co-hosted [...]
Bloody Conversations: talking to girls about their bodies
By Gugu Nonjinge Research shows that underprivileged girls can miss [...]
Don’t put my heritage over the Coals
By Mikhail Petersen On the 24th of September, South Africans [...]