Equality

Equality

From many firsts at Osisa to pushing for women’s rights across the continent

Lived realities like having to tend to her brothers or observing the relationship between her parents awoke a feminist in young Alice D. Kanengoni, branching out into a career of driving change for women across the continent. “Sometimes it can feel like the challenge is so big and that your efforts are a drop in …

Sipho Malunga: the humble human rights lawyer

 An executive director learns that he doesn’t have all the answers by Ang Lloyd “I hadn’t understood that it was exactly what I needed; OSISA offered me an opportunity to get my voice back, and a lesson in how important humility is.” At the start of 2013, Siphosami (or Sipho, as colleagues and comrades call …

OSISA’s legacy of improving LGBTQIA+ rights

OSISA provided critical support to the LGBTQIA+ community and moved the needle for the recognition of LGBTQIA+ rights in Southern Africa OSISA helped new LGBTQIA+ organisations to form across Southern Africa OSISA was an early donor in the LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy space. The organisation took up the mantle when no one else was willing. For …