Skip to content

The Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project is a training, mentorship and incubator programme conducted by OSF-SA grantee, Market Photo Workshop.

Click here to view this complex visual history of the Kalahari region.

About
Funding
Focus Areas
Spotlight
Newsroom
Contact

About
Funding
Focus Areas
Spotlight
Newsroom
Contact

Loading...

Job OpportunitiesPommy_Pom2020-03-09T16:01:51+02:00

Job Opportunities

Vacancy – Regional Manager for Advocacy, Africa Regional Office (AfRO), the Open Society Foundations (OSF)

TWITTER

Tweets by osfsa

SIGN UP fOR UPDATES

* indicates required

Email Address *

First Name

Last Name

View previous campaigns.

FACEBOOK

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 days ago

GBV activists have spoken out against a new provision made to the Domestic Violence Amendment Bill, that aims to make reporting domestic violence a mandatory requirement of the law. "It may very well exacerbate very volatile domestic violence situations. It also places an absurd legal duty on the average person" – Bronwyn Pithey, advocate Women's Legal Centre. ... See MoreSee Less

GBV activists criticise new bill 'obligating' people to report domestic violence

www.capetalk.co.za

Advocacy groups have taken issue with a specific provision in the Domestic Violence Amendment Bill which was introduced in Parliament on Monday.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

6 days ago

A four year long campaign by Ndifuna Ukwazi, Equal Education, Social Justice Coalition and other housing activists has led to a landmark court decision on housing. Read about their journey on GroundUp, which resulted in the court setting aside the sale of the site of the former Tafelberg Remedial School in Sea Point. ... See MoreSee Less

Tafelberg: Four years of battle

www.groundup.org.za

The campaign that led to a landmark court decision on housing

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 weeks ago

Listen to Communities of the Kalahari Photo Mentorship photographer, Luce Steenkamp, share an update on her journey with independent image making in her area. ... See MoreSee Less

Independent Image Making

soundcloud.com

Listen to Independent Image Making by Kalahari Communities #np on #SoundCloud

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 weeks ago

Did you miss the Communities of the Kalahari webinar discussion on visual histories? Watch it at the link below featuring George Mahashe, Marlene Winberg, Cedric Nunn, Joy Gregory, Luce Steenkamp, Tommy Busakhwe and Candice Jansen.

The Communities of the Kalahari Photo Mentorship Project by Market Photo Workshop is an intervention into a complex visual history of the region. ... See MoreSee Less

Kalahari Now: Old Histories & New Visual Practices

www.youtube.com

The Communities of the Kalahari Photo Mentorship Project at the Market Photo Workshop intervenes into a complex visual history of the region. Kalahari Now: O...

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 weeks ago

Following the resumption of the national feeding scheme, Equal Education has received reports that the delivery of food has improved. The organisation will continue collecting feedback from its learner members. Mail & Guardian has more on the feeding scheme's progress. ... See MoreSee Less

Open schools mean full tummies as feeding schemes resume

mg.co.za

About four in five learners in the country’s poorest schools rely on the one meal they receive at school, but they weren’t able to get it for more than four months, during which child hunger increased because of the pandemic

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 weeks ago

Journey through the virtual exhibition of the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project by Market Photo Workshop, featuring the photographic works of Luce Steenkamp and Tommy Busakhwe. ... See MoreSee Less

Communities of the Kalahari

kalaharicommunities.tumblr.com

Kalahari communities as introduced by Luce Steenkamp and Tommy Busakhwe

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

3 weeks ago

According to Africa Check, you should always ask yourself these five questions before you forward a WhatsApp message, to avoid passing on fake news. ... See MoreSee Less

LISTEN | Five steps to fight fake news and false information on WhatsApp

www.timeslive.co.za

Forwarding a false message on WhatsApp can mislead your friends and family. They may be tricked into believing something that isn’t true.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

3 weeks ago

Africa Check claims the The New York Times was wrong to publish that SA had the “fifth-highest infection rate in the world”. According to their research, SA’s infection rate was between 17 and 20th in the world on the day that the claim was made. ... See MoreSee Less

FACT CHECK: Does SA have the fifth highest COVID-19 infection rate?

ewn.co.za

Africa Check takes a look at the claim by The New York Times in August 2020 that South Africa has the fifth-highest COVID-19 infection rate in the world.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

4 weeks ago

Watch Open Society Foundations president, @Patrick Gaspard in an interview with @Gareth Cliff on eNCAnews "So What Now?". Catch him at the 37 minute mark. ... See MoreSee Less

So What Now? | 20 August 2020

www.enca.com

Gareth Cliff explores the state of leadership in South Africa. He is joined by Mayihlome Tswete, Dr Makhosi Khoza and Mzwanele Manyi, with special guest former US Ambassador to SA Patrick Gaspard.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

4 weeks ago

We are so excited to share the inspiring work from The Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project conducted by Market Photo Workshop.

The project is a complex visual history of the region. Kalahari Now: Old Photographic Histories & New Visual Practices marks this intervention by reflecting on the history of representation that has come to define indigenous communities in Africa.

Kalahari photographers, Luce Steenkamp and Tommy Busakhwe, along with other panellists who work as curators, scholars, visual artists, and activists, reflect on the impact of this visual history on their current practices. Join the webinar on 27 August at 6:30pm via Zoom, for a gripping discussion.

Register at the link below. ... See MoreSee Less

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Kalahari Now: Old Photographic Histories & New Visual Practices. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

us02web.zoom.us

A discussion between George Mahashe, Marlene Winberg, Cedric Nunn, Joy Gregory, Luce Steenkamp and Tommy Busakhwe moderated by Candice Jansen. The Communities of the Kalahari Photo Mentorship Project at the Market Photo Workshop intervenes into a complex visual history of the region. Kalahari Now: O...

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

4 weeks ago

Treatment Action Campaign - TAC has joined the Eastern Cape Department of Health to conduct a joint oversight visit to the 48 clinics in Nelson Mandela Bay. Concerns have been raised by activists that clinic patients are unable to access their medicine for HIV, TB and emergency medical services. Daily Maverick shares more details on the investigation. ... See MoreSee Less

MAVERICK CITIZEN: TAC and Eastern Cape Department of Health to investigate Nelson Mandela Bay clinics

www.dailymaverick.co.za

The Treatment Action Campaign and the Eastern Cape Department of Health have agreed to send joint teams to investigate the state of primary healthcare in Nelson Mandela Bay after concerns were raised by activists that patients were struggling to access their medicine for HIV, TB and emergency medica...

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

4 weeks ago

The Market Photo Workshop in partnership with the Open Society Foundation South Africa, is pleased to announce the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project

Launching on the 24th of August.

More details to follow

.
.
.
.
Open Society Foundations
Open Society Foundation for South Africa

.
.
.
#CommunitiesOfKalahari
#KalahariCommunities
#OSFSA
#MarketPhotoWorkshop
#photomentoringmatters
#networkingaskam
#askhameconomics
#circlesoflife
#youngmothers
#askhamtoandriesvale
#documentaryphotography
#portraiture ... See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

Children of the miners killed in Marikana are still waiting for justice to be served. OSF-SA grantee, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) held a webinar last week to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the massacre, which has since seen no arrests. News24.com spoke to a few of the children on how their lives have been affected. ... See MoreSee Less

Marikana massacre: Children of miners killed still waiting for justice to be served, 8 years on | News24

www.news24.com

Children of the mineworkers who were slain by police in what has become known as the Marikana massacre, are still waiting for justice.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

"The Covid-19 pandemic has proven that the media is an essential service – at a time when their livelihoods are being eroded most rapidly" – OSF-SA Executive Director, Bulelwa Ngewana writes in the announcement of OSF-SA's contribution of R500 000 to the SAEditorsForum - SANEF Media Relief Fund. ... See MoreSee Less

Supporting solidarity with journalists

www.osf.org.za

Supporting solidarity with journalists Death, arrest and attack, these are some of the challenges facing journalists on the continent and around the world. In South Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the closure of several media houses and left hundreds of journalists without jobs. We nee...

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

Economic devastation and Covid-19 have escalated land occupations and further revealed the gaps and cracks in the housing market. Adi Kumar, Executive Director of Development Action Group shares seven proposals with GroundUp to address this issue. ... See MoreSee Less

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

www.groundup.org.za

Here are seven proposals

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

“Ultimately, if the cost of corruption is not merely a stolen rand here and there, but a precious life, how much farther do we have to drift from our moral compass before we act?”. Corruption Watch recently launched their latest report titled "X-Ray: The critical state of the health sector in SA". The report unpacks the corruption of the sector and identifies the high-ranking perpetrators involved. Daily Maverick has the full story. ... See MoreSee Less

MAVERICK CITIZEN: Corruption Watch launches damning report on health sector

www.dailymaverick.co.za

High-ranking public officials, administrators, medical professionals, and bidding companies were identified as the main perpetrators of corruption in the sector.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

Patrick Gaspard draws parallels with the late John Lewis and Andrew Mlangeni - The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener - Omny.fm

omny.fm

Guest: Patrick Gaspard - Open Society Foundations President

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

1 month ago

William Bird from OSF-SA grantee, Media Matters, has described Facebook's treatment of a South African teenager as “absolutely despicable”, after the social media platform failed to identity an anonymous user who threatened to rape and kill her. Daily Dispatch has the full story. ... See MoreSee Less

The way Facebook has treated terrified South African teen is ‘absolutely despicable’

www.dispatchlive.co.za

A South African teenager, who wants to know the identity of an anonymous social media user who threatened to rape and kill her, has been let down by Facebook Inc and local police

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

We’re on a break.

Please note that all OSF-SA staff will be unavailable from Monday, 3 August to Monday, 10 August 2020 to allow us to pause after the past few months. We have been very busy responding to the challenges of COVID-19 – both through our existing grantees such as by the re-purposing of grants, and by responding to an overwhelming volume of unsolicited requests.

We will not attend meetings, take part in conference calls or answer emails and messages during our closure. This means that we will not be able to respond to you until Tuesday, 11 August.

Photo by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash. ... See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

Finally! A 7-year court battle has culminated in a ruling by the Constitutional Court that children born to a South African parent elsewhere are entitled to SA citizenship. ‘Liesl Muller of Lawyers For Human Rights said the case was about one simple thing – dignity.’ ... See MoreSee Less

Children born abroad with one South African parent have right to citizenship

www.groundup.org.za

Constitutional Court says that Home Affairs conduct is “brazenly incompetent”, intransigent, indifferent and inefficient

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

A new survey undertaken by the Foundation for Human Rights has found that many social security grants have become very difficult to access during the lockdown period. The survey also found that "50 percent of the unemployed did not get the government distress relief assistance that was promised". The Citizen News has the full story. ... See MoreSee Less

Hunger and lack of food access more acute under Covid-19

citizen.co.za

The survey also found that 50 percent of the unemployed did not get the government distress relief assistance that was promised.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

OSF-SA is pleased to announce that we have donated R500 000 to SAEditorsForum - SANEF relief fund for journalists. The pandemic has given us a greater appreciation for the work that journalists do, often under difficult circumstances, and they need our help and support. News24.com has more details. ... See MoreSee Less

Sanef appeals for help following numerous retrenchments at media houses | News24

www.news24.com

Sanef has urged stakeholders, including government, corporates and individual citizens, to support the embattled media industry.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

"Human dignity, equality and freedom can never allow for the hunger of a child” said Judge Potterill, in a court victory for Section27, Equal Education Equal Education Law Centre. The organisations took the Department of Basic Education to court, calling on them to resume feeding millions of hungry learners. ... See MoreSee Less

Maverick Citizen: Court orders the department of basic education to urgently feed 9 million hungry children

www.google.com

"The essence of this matter aptly can be captured as: ‘For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.’"- Judge S Potterill

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

A new survey undertaken by the Foundation for Human Rights has found that many social security grants have become very difficult to access during the lockdown period. The survey also found that "50 percent of the unemployed did not get the government distress relief assistance that was promised". The Citizen News has the full story. ... See MoreSee Less

Hunger and lack of food access more acute under Covid-19

www.google.com

The survey also found that 50 percent of the unemployed did not get the government distress relief assistance that was promised.

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2 months ago

Speaking at the launch of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) report, Professor Ruth Hall from The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), noted, “Our economy cannot sustain life. It cannot ensure that people have access to food.” GroundUp has more on the launch. ... See MoreSee Less

Covid-19: Children eat wild plants to survive as hunger explodes

www.groundup.org.za

New survey shows hunger doubled since lockdown

View on Facebook

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

CONTACT

admin@osfsa.org.za

+27-21-511-1679

© 1993 - Open Society Foundation for South Africa | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | Built and managed by Pomegranite