Women's support Centre

 
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a non-profit international women's organisation based in East London, South Africa. With a specific focus on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights and the gendered nature of HIV and Aids, we aim to build the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.
To find out more about Masimanyane's gender and human rights work, phone us on 043 743 9169.

WHAT'S NEW

24 April 2012
Masimanyane holds regional Africann meeting

Masimanyane hosted an Amanitare meeting on 30 March to clarify the board’s role within the organisation.

Representatives from Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and South Africa were on hand to develop a statement of interest, which says that Amanitare’s board of directors subscribes to feminist principles of equality, inclusion, accountability, transparency, good governance, shared responsibility and leadership.

24 April 2012
German representative visits Masimanyane

Julia Plessing of the German Development Corporation (GIZ) visited Masimanyane on 11 April to learn more about the work the organisation has done in improving gender equality.

She also invited members of Masimanyane to attend programmes the GIZ are running on communications and how it can be used for campaigning and advocacy.

Plessing is the gender focal person for the GIZ.

24 April 2012
Charlize Theron interested in Masimanyane

Los Angeles based Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) has approached Masimanyane on behalf of actress Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Programme (CTAOP).

The visit, on 14 December 2011, was organised because the programme’s main focus is on violence against women.

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Features

30 April 2012
It happens because we allow it to

The following story featured in Johannesburg newspaper, The Star, on April 25, 2012. Executive director, Lesley Ann Foster was asked to write a feature based on the condition of women in the country after a video of a mentally handicapped women being gang raped went viral on the internet. The story was syndicated nationwide through Independent Newspapers' other publications including the Cape Argus and Pretoria News.

 

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Documents
Profile of West African Human Rights Defenders Network

Executive Director, Lelsey Ann Foster is currently in Togo conudcting shadow report training. She is working closely with the West African Human Rights Defenders Network. To download the organisation's profile, click HERE. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Estelle Ngogo (right) with the director of the West African Defeners Network
Prostitution Strategic Plan

Prostitution is commercial sex and is transacted between those who sell sex in return for monetary rewards and those who buy sex  in return for sexual gratification. Prostituted people are historically women with a minority of men involved in the industry. For years feminists have contended that prostitution is a manifestation of the unequal power relations existing in societies between men and women, with the female sexuality being regarded as a commodity capable of being owned and exploited for the gratification of men.  

To read the document, click HERE
Address at Launch of the Albertina Sisulu Shweshwe cloth

The document below is the address made by Masimanyane Women's Support Centre's exectuvie director, Lesley Ann Foster, at the launch of the Albertina Sisulu Shwshwe Cloth at Da Gama Textiles.

To read the address, download the document HERE
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Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a Section 18A-status or public benefit organisation (PBO). Donations by or to this PBO are exempt from donations tax in terms of Section 56(1)(h) of the Act. Masimanyane's PBO number is 930011582.

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