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Almost half the countries in southern Africa have either decriminalized homosexual sex or are reviewing laws that discriminate against LGBTI citizens, either by voluntary legal reform or court challenge. The region is near a tipping point of irreversible change in recognizing the human rights of LGBTI people. But as more vocal, visible activism that directly challenges violence towards LGBTI people emerges and gains traction, the risk of a stronger backlash and potential repression become more evident in several countries in the region. The COVID-19 pandemic, though, has restricted the ability of LGBTI activists in the region to take more coordinated and bold advocacy actions to advance their freedom and equality and changed the ways in which such advocacy actions might be implemented. Kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience, and Reinvention will therefore take stock of the setbacks that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon LGBTI organising and advocacy in southern Africa over the past two years, examine and celebrate the strengths of LGBTI activist groups despite the circumstances, and envision how LGBTI movements in the region might re-create and reposition their organising and advocacy in a way that is fit for purpose in a changed context.

Kopano, meaning a family or community gathering to address an important issue (in seSotho), provides a once-every-two-year collective strategy development space in which a range of LGBTI activists and allies come together to critically analyse changes that have happened in southern Africa’s social, economic, and political context as well as in the LGBTI movements in the region; consider the best ways to continue to advance equality, freedom, and social inclusion for LGBTI people in refreshed ways; learn from each other and develop strong and healthy relationships of solidarity. Kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience and Reinvention will take place over five days in Cape Town, South Africa, at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Robben Island, where anti-apartheid struggle leaders including Nelson Mandela were imprisoned. It will bring together about 200 participants from across southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) and other international participants, to engage in regional level sharing of experience and knowledge, analysis, peer learning, reflection, and relationship strengthening – to support the reinvigoration of relationships amongst, and strategies used by LGBTI activists and allies in a still-growing movement. It will seek to identify the new political, social and economic opportunities that are emerging to advance LGBTI equality and freedom in southern Africa, as well as new threats facing frontline LGBTI activists.

Kopano brings together LGBTI community leaders; community organizations and members; interested individuals from the mass media, business, religious groups, academic institutions and development agencies; social justice and economic empowerment activists; policymakers; and donors, to critically consider the best ways to move forward. Discussants at any level of exposure, interest, experience, or knowledge – and from any field – across southern Africa can register to participate in kopano. It is a space where people, ideas, and places meet to catalyse change at a particular time and in a particular context.

No invitations are sent out to attend the kopano. An open call for registration gives anyone the opportunity to participate as a panellist, facilitator, rapporteur, volunteer or discussant. Each role is framed as follows:

Panellists provide information and analysis to set the frame for deeper discussions in working sessions;
Facilitators lead working session deliberations;
Rapporteurs capture high-level themes and critical points and report back to the larger group about the concrete ideas and strategies that emerge from deliberations;
Discussants engage in deliberations to co-create strategies that advance LGBTI equality, freedom, and social inclusion.

Kopano combines panel discussions that frame smaller group discussions and deliberations; keynote presentations by guest speakers; self-organized spaces for discussants to network and caucus; an exhibition space, providing discussants with creative ways to share their work; and public events to enable strong relationship building amongst discussants and the broader LGBTI and ally community.

With an emphasis on self-empowerment and community building, the kopano affirms full and diverse participation. Particular attention is given to promoting the participation of activists from faith groups, social justice movements, the mass media, parents and families of LGBTI people, development practitioners; human rights promotion and defence practitioners, business groups, service providers, policymakers, artists, researchers, and scholars.

To ensure a diversity of participation, the Other Foundation provides a limited number of full and partial scholarships to some discussants. Panellists, facilitators, rapporteurs and other volunteers receive full scholarships. Participants from the host city can be daytime participants who benefit from a reduced registration fee. International, regional and local donors are full paying participants. The kopano is residential for most discussants.

Taking account of requests from partners for the Other Foundation to support national-level convenings and sector-specific convenings as part of kopano, the build-up to kopano 2022 already started in November 2021 with 6 national convenings under the theme Rollbacks, Resilience, and Reinvention – in Botswana, eSwatini, Namibia, Malawi, Mauritius, and South Africa – which concluded with a regional convening that gathered the outcomes of the national convenings into a regional-level discussion that included the national lead organisations. The national convenings were hosted by the Other Foundation in partnership with national lead organisations: LEGABIBO in Botswana, eSwatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM) in eSwatini, the Diversity Alliance of Namibia (DAN) in Namibia, the Malawi Diversity Forum in Malawi, the Young Queer Alliance (YQA) and Collectif Arc En Ciel in Mauritius, and Gender Dynamix (GDX) in South Africa. The national consultative meetings served as a galvanizing tool to initiate more joined-up, strategic and hard-hitting public advocacy actions by LGBTI activists in the region, and inform broader deliberations at kopano 2022.

In addition, two regional-level sector-specific convenings were held as part of the build-up to kopano 2022. A convening on LGBTI economic inclusion and empowerment was hosted by PLUS, the South African LGBTI business network in collaboration with the Other Foundation, in January 2022 with participation from eSwatini, Botswana, Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. And a regional convening of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women was co-convened by the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) and the Other Foundation in March 2022 with the intention of establishing a regional LBQ network.

The 9 co-convening organisations for these gatherings will therefore constitute the co-convening group for kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience, and Reinvention, together with the Other Foundation which will be the main convenor. The co-convening organizations are therefore LEGABIBO (Botswana), eSwatini Sexual and Gender Minorities, the Diversity Alliance of Namibia, the Malawi Diversity Forum, the Young Queer Alliance (Mauritius), Collectif Arc En Ciel (Mauritius), Gender Dynamix (South Africa), PLUS (South Africa), and the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (South Africa). A representative from each of these organisations will be identified to be a co-facilitator at the actual kopano gathering.

The Other Foundation will therefore this time not issue an open call for applications to be a co-facilitator at kopano, as it has customarily done in the past.

Given that kopano 2022 will be convened outside the Other Foundation’s Johannesburg base, the Foundation will engage with Cape Town-based LGBTI groups (including the Rainbow UCT LGBTI student group) to inform them about plans in advance of the public announcement of the plans and to invite their particular participation by:

Offering a fixed number of free day participant registrations to Cape Town-based organizations;
Offering to draw 50% of volunteers at kopano 2022 from Cape Town-based organizations; and
Offering a fixed number of invitations to reception and other social events at kopano.

Other LGBTI groups such as Pan Africa ILGA (PAI) have already independently examined the COVID-19 impact and resilience in relation to LGBTI organizing and advocacy. Kopano 2022 will draw on the outcomes and information resource materials already generated by others on the relevant topics.

So as to optimise cost and other efficiencies in hosting kopano 2022 away from the Other Foundation’s office base in Johannesburg and to enhance the quality of the content and experience of kopano 2022, the Other Foundation has entered into an expanded number of partnerships to co-host kopano 2022. The University of Cape Town (UCT) has agreed to be a co-host by providing venues and logistical support for the gathering. The Robben Island Museum has agreed to be a co-host by welcoming discussants to the island for one full day of kopano 2022.

The theme for kopano 2022 is Rollbacks, Resilience, and Reinvention (in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic). Holding this year’s kopano in Cape Town in partnership with Robben Island (which is a symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity) and UCT (which has itself had to deal with several setbacks recently, including major fire damage to its campuses and challenges about how to more seriously address the safety and inclusion of LGBTI people in the university community) will continue to advance an agenda of placing LGBTI struggles within the broader struggle for the freedom of all oppressed people, and for social and economic justice.

In addition, the Other Foundation has partnered with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to co-host events during kopano, specifically in relation to engaging members of parliament and state statisticians from countries in the region, again to optimise the quality and impact of content at, and efficiencies in organising kopano 2022.

The specific goals of kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience and Reinvention are to:

Assess the positive and negative changes that have happened in the political, social, and economic landscape in southern Africa during the COVID-19 as it relates to LGBTI organising and advocacy;
Explore appropriate advocacy opportunities and strategies in the context of Covid-19;
Plan for increased preventive and responsive security protections for frontline LGBTI activists;
Envision a renewed and repositioned LGBTI movement in southern Africa post-COVID, for even an even better quality of relationships between LGBTI groups and with allies, and even greater depth and scale of advocacy impact.

The expected outcomes of kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience and Reinvention are:

Renewed collective energy amongst LGBTI activists, community members and allies for advanced activism;
More joined-up strategic relationships amongst LGBTI activists and allies;
A shared agenda for advocacy to advance equality and freedom for LGBTI people in southern Africa in a post-COVID-19 context; and
Increased safety and preventive and responsive security for frontline activists.

Click the thumbnail to download a copy of the draft programme for kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience, Reinvention, and get a sense of how the convening will evolve. Available in French and Portuguese.

Click the thumbnail to download a copy of the COVID-19 Safety Protocols at kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience, Reinvention.

Kopano, the flagship convening of southern African LGBTI groups and their allies that is convened by the Other Foundation in partnership with a number of other LGBTI organisations from across the region, was held in March 2022 under the theme Rollbacks, Resilience, Reinvention.

Knowledge resources for kopano – Rollback, Resilience, Reinvention

Rollbacks, Resilience and Reinvention – Report on Regional Convenings

Where are the Global COVID-19 Resources for LGBTI Communities?

Till the Time of Trial – Simon Nkoli’s Prison Letters

Understanding the Experiences of LGBTQI+ Employees in the Workplace

Under Wraps: Malawi Nationally Representative Public Opinion Survey

Civil Society Business Toolkit

COVID-19 and the Human Rights of LGBTI People

Progressive Prudes

Voices of Resilience in Uncertainty

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Transgender and Non-Binary Community

kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience, Reinvention, an LGBTI strategy space where people, places, and ideas meet to help make freedom a reality for all in southern Africa.

EXPANDING SPACE FOR LGBTI ACTIVISM - September 2019

With southern Africa now near a tipping point of change in recognizing the citizenship of LGBTI people, sustained progress to tip the balance towards equality and freedom for LGBTI citizens in the region now at once requires more joined-up, strategically smart, and hard-hitting public advocacy capability by LGBTI human rights activists (especially intersex, lesbian, and transgender groups who are the least organized, visible, and resourced), and more robust direct engagement of duty bearers in the public, private, and social spheres – for deep and lasting change in public policies and attitudes.

kopano, meaning a family gathering to address an important issue in seSotho – provides a once-every-two-year collective strategy development space in which a range of LGBTI activists and allies come together to critically analyze changes that have happened in southern Africa’s social, economic, and political context as well as in the LGBTI movements in the region; consider the best ways to evolve in advancing equality, freedom, and social inclusion for LGBTI people in the region; learn from each other and develop strong relationships of solidarity.

Each kopano is a space where people, ideas, and places meet to catalyze change at a particular time and in a particular context. It combines panel discussions that frame smaller group discussions and deliberations; keynote presentations by guest speakers; self-organized spaces for discussants to network and caucus; an exhibition space, providing discussants with creative ways to share their work; and public events including opening and closing receptions to enable strong relationship building amongst discussants and the broader LGBTI and ally community.

Over four days, about 200 participants from across southern Africa and abroad convened at the Cradle of Humankind for kopano – Expanding space for LGBTI activism in southern Africa. From the place where we all began, we collectively envisioned and set-plans in motion to make freedom a lived reality for all, by supporting the evolution of strategies used by LGBTI activists and allies in a growing movement.

The specific goals of kopano – Expanding Space for LGBTI Activism in Southern Africa were to:

Assess the positive and negative changes that have happened in the political, social, and economic landscape in southern Africa – as well as in the LGBTI activist movements in the region;
Explore regional level advocacy opportunities and strategies;
Plan for increased preventive and responsive security protections for frontline LGBTI activists;
Evolve the strategies used by LGBTI activist groups for greater depth and scale of impact.

The expected outcomes of this kopano were:

Renewed collective energy amongst LGBTI activist organizations, their members and allies for evolved activism – especially amongst lesbian and intersex groups;
More joined-up strategic relationships amongst LGBTI activist groups and allies across the region;
A shared agenda for regional level advocacy to advance equality and freedom for LGBTI people in southern Africa; and
Increased preventive and responsive security for frontline activists.

Click the thumbnail to download a copy of the programme for kopano – Expanding space for LGBTI activism in southern Africa.

Click the thumbnail to download a copy of the discussant evaluation feedback.

Videos of all the plenary sessions at kopano are available to watch. Click any of the thumbnails below.

The Long March to Freedom

An outdoor gathering amidst historic figures in the struggle for freeedom and a celebratory march to the meeting venue.

Reclaiming our histories and expanding our space: A reflection on African LGBTI histories

Plenary session locating LGBTI struggles in southern Africa in their historical and contemporary narratives, with reference to pre-colonial African LGBTI histories.

Situational Input: Fikile Vilakazi

SADC: Is there sufficient political will to advance?

An exploration about how the LGBTI movement can insert its struggles in the continuum of struggle for equality in our region, including new opportunities and threats in relation to the Southern African Development Community.

Moderator: Liberty Matthayse;
Panelists: Joseph Pitso – Head of Gender Unit, SADC Secretariat; Glanne Farred – SADC Council of NGOs; Tashwill Esterhuizen – Southern Africa Litigation Centre; Steve Letsike – Access Chapter 2.

Who is the message for? Communicating strategically to win public hearts and minds

Assessing how LGBTI activists frame their public messaging, how this is received by their audiences and existing opportunities for more strategic messaging.

Moderator: Lame Olebile
Panelists: Brian Ligomeka – Centre for Solutions Journalism; Brian Pellot – Taboom Media; Carla Sutherland – Independant Consultant; Stephen Matenga – National Association of Freelance Journalists.

Party Politics: Creating change through political participation

A contextual review about the evolotuion of progressive politics followed by a participatory discussion on how to insert LGBTI struggles within the trajectory of progressive politics in southern Africa.

Moderator: Linda Baumann;
Panelists: Miguel de Brito – Activist, Mozambique; Jesse Duarte – Deputy Secretary General, African National Congress, South Africa; Dr Jessie Kabwila MP, Chairperson of Parliamentary Women’s Cucus, United Transformation Front, Malawi; Mants’iuoa Mosothoane MP, Member of the Paliamentary Social Cluster Portfolion Committee, Movement for Economic Change, Lesotho.

Achieving Scale: Can integration into education curricula create big change?

Exploring the prospects for including LGBTI issues in training curricula , with panelists from medical, educational, religious and journalism training institutes.

Moderator: Vuyane Mhlomi;
Panelists: Nikita Maesela – Journalist, City Press; Lionel Green-Thompson – Dean at the School of Medicine, Sefako Makgathi Health Sciences University; Sanja Bornman – Lawyers for Human Rights; Luvuyo Sifo – Head of Transformation, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary.

Cultivating Allies: Benefits and pitfalls

An exploration of the value, opportunities and risks of cultivating and collaborating with parents and families of LGBTI people, business, religious and research allies.

Moderator: Mmabatho Motsamai;
Panelists: Gugu McLaren – Head of Social Tranasformation, National Business Initiative, South Africa; Alan Msosa – Reseacher, Malawi; Mosweu Simane – Former Secretary General, Botwsana Council of Churches; Sybil Msezane – Manager, PLUS The LGBTI Business Network, South Africa.

Equality Safety and the Sustainable Development Goals

The value and best approaches of integrating LGBTI equality, freedom, and social inclusion in the national, regional and global development agendas, using the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as an entry point.

Moderator: Bella Matambanadzo;
Panelists: Jeff O’Malley – Consultant, United Nations Development Programme; Danilo Da Silva – Executive Director, LAMBDA; Kubi Rama – Advisor, Gender Links; Washington Katema – Southern Africa Human Rights Defender’s Fund

Closing Comments

Danilo Da Silva shares closing, reflective comments at the end of the formal programme of kopano – Expanding space for LGBTI activism in southern Africa.

Honouring our Heritage

A celebration of LGBTI activism in southern Africa, including a special tribute honouring respected LGBTI activists.

Director of Ceremonies: Natalia Molebatsi;
Entertainment: The Muffinz.

Take a look at this image gallery of some memorable moments at kopano – Expanding space for LGBTI activism in southern Africa.

kopano – Expanding space for LGBTI activism in southern Africa, an LGBTI strategy space where people, places, and ideas meet to help make freedom a reality for all in southern Africa.

ACCELERATING CHANGE – NOVEMBER 2017

FREEDOM PARK • PRETORIA • SOUTH AFRICA • 26 – 29 NOVEMBER 2017

Everyone should be free to live a safe and dignified life, have a family and make their contribution to society – no matter who they are or who they love. The purpose of this kopano was to find ways to speed up change to make this a lived reality for LGBTI people in southern Africa.

kopano – Accelerating Change, a gathering of groups that are working to advance equality, social inclusion, and wellbeing of homosexual and bisexual women and men, and transgender and intersex people in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, was convened to address this need. We would like to thank the co-convenors Iranti-Org, LambdaMoz, Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), Namibia Diverse Women’s Association (NDWA), Pan Africa ILGA (PAI), and Gender DynamiX, for their incredible support.

With such an incredible team of individuals, groups and organizations behind kopano to ensure its success, it is no surprise that we received positive feedback from the more than 200 activists from 12 African countries.

‘I learnt a lot of skills on participatory community partnerships and strategic spaces.’

‘Great job, accommodated people even from rural areas.’

‘Working groups allowed for expression and sharing of ideas and working ways.’

‘Balanced and varied as well as stimulating conversations coming out of it.’

In keeping with the innovative formatting of the inaugural kopano in 2015, Accelerating Change was also documented in video so as to be able to share the experience far beyond the immediate participants in the kopano. After watching this opening video, click on the links below to watch recordings of the key plenary sessions and outcomes over the four day convening.

Our context: What changes have been happening for and against LGBTI people in southern Africa?

Framing the nature – both negative and positive – of changes in the social, political, economic, cultural, legal and civic context for LGBTI people in southern Africa.

Moderator: Bongani Bingwa – Journalist.

Panelists: Ricki Kgositau – Gender DynamiX; Linda Baumann – NDWA; Danilo da Silva – LambdaMoz.

Our Movement: How is our movement driving of hindering these changes?

An exploration of how the LGBTI movement is driving, hindering, or indifferent to changes in our environment, with a focus on strategies and actions that amplify or mitigate these changes.

Moderator: Melanie Judge – Queer and feminist activist.

Panelists: Chesterfield Samba – GALZ; Nonhlanhla Mkhize – Gay Centre.

Public narratives: How does the public see and hear LGBTI people and activism in our region?

What is informing public narratives about LGBTI people and activism in the region, and what implications do these narratives have for our activism?

Moderator: Bongani Sibeko – Independent activist.

Panelists: Ragies Gunda – Independent consultant; Zini Godden – Interim Chair, PLUS the LGBTI+ Business Network; Bourne Kanyumwa – Malawi Police Service.

Reclaiming an African Narrative for LGBTI equality and inclusion: A dialogue.

Dialogue to explore African perspectives and narratives that could be used to integrate LGBTI freedom and equality within the broader African social and economic justice struggles.

Moderator: Bella Matambanadzo – Co-chair of the Other Foundation.

Panelists: Pansy Tlakula – former Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights; Lenny Lebon – former MP, Seychelles National Assembly; Deyonce Naris – Trans, Intersex and Androgynous Movemenet of Namibia (TIAMON); Caine Youngman – LEGABIBO.

Vote of thanks: Gary Rhoda – Human Rights Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat.

Shaping new narratives: Refining our messaging for different regions.

An assessment of the public messaging that LGBTI activists in the region use to engage the public, to evaluate whether those messages adequately engage the prevailing public narratives about, and social attitudes towards, LGBTI people.

Moderator: Dawn Cavanagh – Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL).

Respondent: Martha Tholanah – Independent consultant.

Accelerating Change: What should we do anew to drive faster and deeper change?

Framing of the main types of actions and partnerships needed to make social, political, economic, and cultural change in favour of LGBTI happen faster and in a lasting way.

Moderator: Ian Southey-Swartz – Open Society Foundations.

Panelists: Paula Sebastiâo – Independent activist; Diana Katu – Pakasipiti; Mclean Kabwe – The Lotus Identity.

The journey we have walked: Review of kopano discussions.

Video summary of outcomes from working group discussions.

Envisioning Change: Scenarios for the future.

Envisioning change for LGBTI people in the next three years: What may we be able to achieve and what do we need to do to get there in terms of actions and messaging?

Moderator: Anzio Jacobs – SCOPE.

Panelists: Jabu Pereira – Iranti- Org; Tiffany Mugo – Holaafrica; Carina Capitine – LambdaMoz.

Closure: Our voices have power.

Video presentation of what discussants found unique about our kopano, with a closing message from co-chair of the Other Foundation’s board of trustees, Xhanti Payi.

Graphic harvest of all the plenary sessions at kopano – Accelerating Change (click to enlarge)

kopano – ACCELERATING CHANGE – an LGBTI strategy space where people, places, and ideas meet to help make freedom a reality for all in southern Africa

FREEDOM FOR ALL – SEPTEMBER 2015

SOWETO • SOUTH AFRICA • 28 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2015

Everyone should be free to live a safe and dignified life, have a family and make their contribution to society – no matter who they are or who they love. We need to figure out what is working and what does not, to make this a lived reality in southern Africa. That was the purpose for convening this kopano.

Our inaugural kopano Freedom for All provided a unique and empowering strategy space for groups that are working to advance and protect the human rights, social inclusion, and wellbeing of homosexual and bisexual women and men, as well as transgender and intersex people in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Remarkably positive feedback has been received from many of the over 100 activists from 11 African countries, who engaged in facilitated strategy discussions geared towards shifting the paradigm of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex [LGBTI] activism from individual sexual rights to transformative social change.

“What an amazing conference! So much motivation for us as African social movements.” Alain Redcliffe, OUT!ology Network

“It was a delightful experience.” Melusi Simelani, Swaziland

“I am truly grateful to the Other Foundation for being part of this amazing conference.” Ricky Nathanson, Zimbabwe

Breaking away from dreary conference formats, the kopano was purposefully designed as a community gathering, to facilitate as much soul-searching, interaction and discussion between participants as possible. It was defined by collaborative organizing, enough time for remembering those who have gone before us, and great moments for celebration of new milestones that have been reached. 1 in 4 participants was actively engaged in the running of the kopano – by being a co-facilitator, volunteer, or intern. There was emphasis on self-empowerment and community building through working with activists from the media, faith groups, organizations focused on human rights defense from a legal perspective, health and wellbeing organizations, and social justice movements. In addition, high profile panelists and moderators in plenary sessions helped to unpack the possibilities of alliance building with non-LGBTI groups and challenge participants to re-invent their approaches.

Our kopano was also innovatively documented in video by a cohort of media interns working with more experienced media professionals, so as to be able to share the experience far beyond the immediate participants in the kopano. In the interest of those who couldn’t attend our kopano (and for those who wish to relive some moments), we have uploaded footage of the plenary sessions, which can be viewed on our kopano-dedicated YouTube channel. Click on the links below to watch recordings of the key plenary sessions.

Prospects for Progress & Lessons from Setbacks

Gains made from across the region over the last 12 to 18 months are interrogated for lessons to strengthen our work.
Moderator: Eusebius McKaiser – Social Commentator.
Panelists: Danilo Da Silva – LAMBDA; Fadzai Muparutsa – Coalition of African Lesbians; Ricky Nathanson – Southern Africa Regional Trans Forum; Monica Tabengwa – Activist; Steve Letsike – National Task Team, South Africa, Access Chapter 2.

Finding Shared Values in a Fractured World

Presentation: Carla Sutherland – The Other Foundation

Speakers: Miguel De Brito – Trustee; Neville Gabriel – The Other Foundation.

Alliance Building for the Future

Exploring what it will take to build strong alliances with related sectors.
Moderator: Alice Mogwe – Trustee.
Panelists: Malusi Mpumlwana – South African Council of Churches; Edwin Cameron – Constitutional Court of South Africa; Karima Brown – Independent Media; Lindiwe Zikhali – Anglo American.

Opportunities for Innovation

Short inputs on new and innovative work happening in the region.
Moderator: Ian Southey-Swartz – Open Society Foundations.
Panelists: Faraaz Mohamed – South African Human Rights Commission; Mukami Marate – UHAI, The East Africa Sexual Health and Rights Initiative; Swelakhe Shelembe – KwaZulu Natal Christian Council; Finn Reygan – Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action; Jabu Pereira – Iranti.

Outcomes: Approaches to Social Change