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Tackling the land debate

"South Africa belongs to all who live in it.” without this declaration our Constitution would be a hollow statement if the majority of South Africans did not have access to the land of which we were robbed and from which we were alienated during centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid.

There is currently a lot of discussion and debate – but also disinformation and fear mongering around South Africa’s land reform and redistribution process.

Men-to-men: Be a man, my boy

When *Tshepo Mofokeng was 10 years old, he witnessed the rape of his 17-year-old sister.

While the armed attacker told the little boy to lie down and not watch, he can still hear his sister’s screams.

After the attack, the man ordered the siblings to run and not look back. As they painfully made their way home, his sister made him promise not to tell a soul of the rape. Mofokeng kept his word but the secret made him very bitter.

Raising awareness of alopecia

A rare condition related to hair loss has led a Durban woman to advocacy.

Sizakele Mdluli-Chaplin has a dream of living in a world where beauty is not defined by long hair, a slim body and straight white teeth.

She was diagnosed with alopecia, which is a condition that causes the immune system to attack hair follicles throughout the body and leads loss from the scalp, underarms, eyebrows, eyelashes and the pubic area.

Safety and empowerment for abuse victims

A group of Western Cape shelters protects, supports and empowers women and their children so that they can shake off the shackles of abuse.

Henrietta du Preez is an abuse survivor who's life has changed thanks to the caring environment offered by the Western Cape Women’s Shelter Movement (WCWSM).

Sexually abused by her father when she was a girl, she also found out in 2015 that her own daughters were being molested by their stepfather.

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