Africa loves her sisters by MarieElisée

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<div class="hide" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); padding: 4px 8px; border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">  </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 1ex;"> <ol style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012: MACAID Fellow</li> </ol> In 2012, I was selected for a MACAID Fellowship Programme on HIV/GBV Prevention. My Prevention Plan, called We Are One, focused on bringing churches aboard with the plight of LGBTI community towards HIV/GBV prevention in the area of Gugulethu &Nyanga,Cape Town. I’ve successfully implemented the programme.   <ol start="2" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012: DASO Poster Presentation</li> </ol> I, together with y partner, made a poster to raise awareness and battle the ongoing Corrective Rape in our society and promoting free to love <a href="http://campaign.www.mambaonline.com/" target="_blank">campaign.www.mambaonline.com</a>,<a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/" target="_blank">www.timeslive.co.za</a>   <ol start="3" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012: National Protest Convener</li> </ol> In the light of the ongoing onslaught on LGBTI communities in the country, I was selected to handover the memorandum to the ANC office complaining about the silence of the ruling party silence and inaction.   <ol start="4" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012:  HIVOS Invitation in Netherlands</li> </ol> As a known activist of gay/lesbians community, I was invited to the Pride and to present y documentary, Warrior of Love, which was nominated as the Best Warrior of Love.   <ol start="5" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012: Gender Links Summit</li> </ol> Through invitation, I was an active participant in the 10th Gender Links Summit and also had comprehensive discussions and meeting with Ekurhuleni Madam Speaker on gender issues.   <ol start="6" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2012: Petition Against Hate Crime</li> </ol> After being harassed by Andile Ncoza because of being a lesbian, as intimidation continued after he received bail, I started a petition that went countrywide and also got the international attention which finally had 170 000 worldwide signatures which demanded that rape of lesbians be declared as a Hate Crime.  This forced Jacob Zuma to delegate Minister Jeff Hadebe to have meeting with me and LGBTI <a href="http://sector.www.sowetalive.co.za/" target="_blank">sector.www.sowetalive.co.za</a>   <ol start="7" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Hate Crime Task Team</li> </ol> I was voted as the active member of the Hate Crime Task Team seeking to address issues of the violation of constitutional rights of lesbians and <a href="http://gays.www.mambaonline.com/" target="_blank">gays.www.mambaonline.com</a>,<a href="http://www.change.org/" target="_blank">www.change.org</a>,<a href="http://www.fwdeklerk.org/" target="_blank">www.fwdeklerk.org</a>       <ol start="8" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Hilary Clinton Invitation in Geneva</li> </ol> I was invited to deliberate with parliamentarians and to highlight the challenges facing South Africa under the ANC leadership as part of resolution seeking process.   <ol start="9" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Helen Suzman Foundation Convention</li> </ol> In the effort of bridging gaps between the Constitution and Homophobic Realities – I formed part of the deliberations and resolutions on bridging gaps alongside Eusebius, Edwin Cameron, Andries Nel and<a href="http://others.www.hsf.org.za/" target="_blank">others.www.hsf.org.za</a>       <ol start="10" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Rhodes University Address</li> </ol> During the Women’s Month, I addressed Political and International Gender Studies students around issues of Hate Cries and Luleki Sizwe’s work in Cape Town townships sharing the stage with Eusebius, who is the icon on Gender Issues. <a href="http://www.ru.ac.za/" target="_blank">www.ru.ac.za</a>   <ol start="11" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: BBC Interview on Hate Crime</li> </ol> A special interview was arranged for me to clarify all the challenges facing LGBTI communities in the country especially the Hate Crime and Corrective Rape onslaught that the community continued to cruelly endure.   <ol start="12" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Invitation to a Platform in Dublin2010: Online Petition</li> </ol> I was also invited to constructively participate in a platform in Dublin tackling human rights courtesy of having registered Human Rights Defender with Frontline Defenders.   <ol start="13" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2010 – 2012: Chairperson of Black City Community</li> </ol> As a resident of the Black City, Nyanga and due to my community work, I was elected as the chairperson of Black City overlooking developmental issues and setting up street committees.   <ol start="14" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2010: Sparkling Women 2010: Nomination for New Feminist</li> </ol> My work in the LGBTI struggle led to me being recognized as one of the sparkling women in an article of the magazine and the only woman from South Africa nominated 8 countries. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a>   <ol start="15" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2008: Formation of Luleki Sizwe</li> </ol> In 2008 March, I started Luleki Sizwe, an NGO that tackles issues of LGBTI issues, tackle social ills like Hate Crime, HIV/AIDS and gender violence in general. I am the Founder and Director of the organization.   <ol start="16" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2005 – 2006: Cape Town Pride Executive Committee Member</li> </ol> As an active member of the Pride, I was also elected into the position of the Cape Town Pride Executive Committee so to play a bigger role in the organization of the Pride. I pride myself at being the first black lesbian to bring the Pride in Gugulethu, a black <a href="http://township.www.capetowmpride.org/" target="_blank">township.www.capetowmpride.org</a>.,<a href="http://www.time.com/" target="_blank">www.time.com</a>   <ol start="17" style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"> <li style="margin-left: 0pt;"> 2011: Pink Week Guest Speaker – University of Cape Town</li> </ol> In 2011, I made an address at the University of Cape Town as a guest speaker talking about my extensive work in fighting for the constitutional rights of LGBTI communities and the Hate Crimes that have engulfed the black townships.   1.Alice Magazine 2.Out Magazine 3.Observer Magazine UK 4.Diva Magazine 5.Destiny Magazine 6.Drum Magazine 7.ESPN News 8.BBC News 9.Sense online 10.NGO Pulse 11.South African Project Website 12.Digital lot 13.German Report 14.German TV Documentary 15.Warrio of Love 16.Difficult love Documentary 17.You Tube <a href="http://18.www.lulekisizwe.com/" target="_blank">18.www.lulekisizwe.com</a> </div>

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<div> Every thing about me is big,my smile, my heart, my intentions, my problems, my empathy,my determination and dreams.</div> <div> Principles that guide my life are percistence,perseverance,patience and pation and that allows me to be strong in building movements and people’s organizations.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The pain and struggle of those less fortunate than me inspires me to reach out.</div> <div> Its something that has been seculating in my blood vessels since, I was a child growing up in the dusty area of Gugulethu,and participating in the anti apartheid movement.</div> <div> The plight of young black lesbian women who are taking drugs ,raped and violated ,contracted from HIVAIDS .</div> <div> Hungry and unemployed ,evicted from their homes because of their sexuality</div> <div> and who prostitute themselves in order to survive are issues that I’m hoping </div> <div> and fighting to change.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Growing up in Gugulethu ,a black township near Cape Town. I was raise in a strict Seventh Day Adventist family, in a society where a woman was expected to know her place: everything was conducted by men.We couldn’t be out spoken: we were not equal.I knew from a young age that I was feminist and a lesbian-two things that I could never change.</div> <div>  </div> <div> 31 March 2008 I founded Luleki Sizwe after the deaths of my dear friend Luleka Makiwane and fiancée Nosizwe Bizana they were both raped because of who they were and died because of HIVAIDS..</div> <div>  </div> <div> Luleki Sizwe means Discipline the nation Constructively, and i believe that educating people is the key,My calling is to empower those who are less fortunate than me and change negative perceptions. I look after lesbian women who has been abused in horrendous ways and are living with HIV and scars of their abuse. </div> <div> The Hate Crimes cases studies that I dealt with from2007-2013 .</div> <div> 13 of rape and 4 of sexual assaults and one recent murder of Sihle Sikoji who was an active member of Luleki Sizwe and also playing soccer for Luleki Sizwe Foodball Club</div>

Bintu Mulungo president of a group of more than 60 associations of African women just give its full support to Africa Loves soeurelles. As a reminder, the Association of African Women Solidarity received in 2010 the price of POWEO foundation for its action Kiwu. Retrouvez l'article ici :<img alt="Afrique_des_amours_soeurelles" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/24536/Afrique_des_Amours_soeurelles.jpg" />

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