South Africa

To combat the effects of corruption and significant sovereign debt will require economic structural reform and addressing the flaws of the global financial architecture pertaining to sovereign debt.

The G20 has long vowed to combat global hunger, but concrete results remain scarce. South Africa’s presidency provides an opportunity to gain international support for proven solutions that strengthen local food systems and promote sustainable livelihoods.

The landmark application by the South African government to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to institute proceedings against Israel for its reprisal military assault against the people of Gaza, following the 7th October 2023 attacks and kidnappings in Israel, caught the majority of the world off-guard. It represents a significant judicial test to the functionality of the international multilateral system.

The Thought Leadership Programme at Triangle Project was identified to address the historical legacies of Apartheid South Africa. Young Black LGBTQI+ people in South Africa still bear the brunt of our history and do not have innovative and structured places to create social mobility to participate in the democratic agenda. These young LGBTQI+ people are often left out in contributing to change and governance due to the lack of a good civic education which not only plagues South Africa but the African continent at large.  

The Overactive Cyborg is a visualizer project that covers themes that include over-extractivism of Africa’s resources in the form of minerals for production, class struggles and access, overproduction, and over-consumerism leading to climate change and global warming.

Most of food production in Africa is shouldered by small scale farmers and the majority of farmers are women. Alarmed by the effects of climate change on her family’s farm Ayakha Melithafa from South Africa’s Western Cape joined an environmental school club and engages now in a national and an international youth movements for climate justice.

The queer community is not free from exclusions and the fight for resources.. Class plays as much a role as ideas about femininity and masculinity. Black trans*women from rural areas, who are often poor, face particularly strong discrimination. Therefore, the queer community itself must address its own internalised prejudices, distorted perceptions, and exclusions. A conversation with Seoketsi Mooketsi (Seopowerr).

Nomarussia Bonase devotes all her energy to the fight for justice. The portrait of a peacemaker.