The Other Foundation is happy to announce the election of Rosie Motene and Danilo da Silva as the new co-chairpersons of the Foundation. Rosie is a queer feminist author, gender activist, speaker, counsellor, life coach and pan-African entertainment manager. Danilo is an acclaimed advocate for LGBTI people in Mozambique, Africa and globally. Danilo was the founding executive director of LAMBDA in Mozambique.

At the same time, we applaud Bella Matambanadzo and Xhanti Payi who have been the co-chairpersons of the Foundation since 2015, as they retire from the board of trustees of the Foundation. Bella and Xhanti, your excellent leadership has enabled the Foundation to grow, be resilient, and remain always relevant and creative. We will forever be grateful for your outstanding legacy of leadership. Continued success in your new chapters!

kopano – Rollbacks, Resilience and Reinvention,
 
recognizes the rollbacks experienced in our organizing and advocacy, celebrates and builds on our resilience, and explores how to reinvent our movements to make freedom a reality for all in southern Africa.


There are four ways to participate. Click here to find out more and register.

Registration and scholarship applications will be processed on a first-come, first-serve basis.


Poderemos processar a sua aplicação mais rapidamente se for submetida em inglês. No entanto, também pode enviar-nos em português ou francês.
Nous pourrons traiter votre candidature plus rapidement si elle est rédigée en anglais. Cependant, vous pouvez également soumettre votre candidature en portugais ou en français.
We will be able to process your application more quickly if it is written in English. However, you can submit your application in Portuguese or French as well.

With the support of the Danish government, the Other Foundation partners with national lead partner organisations to hold national convenings of LGBTI and ally groups in Botswana, eSwatini, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, and South Africa in November and December 2021. The gatherings intended to review the state of LGBTI organising and advocacy after two years of restriction, and reinvigorate joined-up public advocacy actions by LGBTI groups.


The groups then came together in a regional dialogue to identify the main regional trends and consolidate the outcomes of the national discussions, so as to inform the shape and process for kopano 2022.

The theme for the summit was ‘Capitalizing Corporate Supply Chain and Supplier Development Programmes to Scale up your Business’. The summit has grown steadily from its launch in 2018, where PLUS the LGBTI+ Business Network, made a strong case for the economic inclusion of LGBTI people. Since then, the summit has put in place some practical building blocks for greater economic participation by LGBTI people. It has also looked at addressing the challenges faced by LGBTI people in elevating their businesses. This 2022 summit spread its reach with satellite venues in eSwatini and Zimbabwe, to capacitate and empower LGBTI business owners in those countries. The summit aims to increase the participation of LGBTI owned businesses in corporate supply chains and enterprise development programmes across southern Africa.



PLUS the LGBTI+ Business Network, is the first chamber of commerce for LGBTI people in Africa and was established as an initiative of the Other Foundation.

Targeted at influential members of the community such as legislators, parents, and others, the project’s LGBTIQ inclusive messaging is paving the way for calls for an LGBTIQ-sensitive constitution. The implementation of this project resulted in an unprecedented outcome when the President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi invited representatives of LEGABIBO and other LGBTIQ leaders to his office on 26 January 2022. He reassured them that he would respect a recent court of appeal decision that decriminalized same-sex sexual practices and protected their rights. Aired on Botswana television and Facebook, a public meeting between a sitting president and an LGBTIQ group was unheard of in southern Africa. The meeting marked a significant turnaround in Botswana, in stark contrast with the need for LEGABIBO to turn to the courts to turn around the government’s refusal to register it.

The Other Foundation is proud to support LEGABIBO’s ongoing work, most recently with a grant to this project of ZAR200,000.

The Unit for Religion and Development Research (URDR) at Stellenbosch University investigated this to identify and document good practices amongst local churches in three denominations in Cape Town, South Africa. URDR specializes in critically analyzing the complex relations between harmful religious beliefs and gender and sexuality. In partnership with Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) and local church congregations, workshops provided a unique engagement about sexual diversity by bringing together people from across the sexuality and gender spectrum, and church communities, towards greater inclusion of LGBTI church members and their parents and families.

The Other Foundation supported the project with a grant of ZAR50,000.

AARON SCHWINDT – ABRI PEROLD – ADRIAN COMAN – AGNES NYGREN – ALAN ROBERTS – ALBERT LOUW – ALEX ZIMPER – AMANDA GEYER – ANATHI SHOSHA – ANDILE MZINYATI – ANDREA MAHARAJ – ANDREW HOWARD – ANN-MARIE GOLIATH – ANTOINE PAPAYYA – ARCUS FOUNDATION – ASHLEY GREEN-THOMPSON – AYANDA BALLENSIEFEN – BARBARA BOHLE – BARBARA WRIGHT – BLANCHE TING – BOKANG MAROBA – BONGANI KHUMALO – BONGILE LECOGE – BONGINKOSI MAHALA – BRADLEY FORTUIN – BRENDA YENI – BRETON ALBERTI – BRETT PYPER – BRIAN HLONGWA – BRIAN OLSON – BRIAN SIBEKO – BRUCE COURIE – CARINA CAPITINE – CARL WOCKE – CARLA SUTHERLAND – CAROLINA SHIELDS – CATHERINE HENDRICKS – CHESLIN TWIGG – CHRIS NESSLING – CHRIS TAUTE – CHRISTOPH MINKE – COBUS BENADE – CONSTANCE MASEHLA – CONSTANCE MATSHENE – CRAIG ABRAHAMS – CRAIN SOUDIEN – DANA GAMPEL – DANIEL VAN WYK – DARREN KELLY-LOULIE – DARRYL HOWARD – DAVID DAVIDS – DAVID PRESSMAN – DAVID RYAN – DEAN EBDEN – DEBORAH BAILEY – DEON GROENEWALD – DIMITRI MARTINS – DNA BRAND SOLUTIONS – DONALD NXUMALO – DONALD STPIERE – EBEN LASSEN – ELIDJA SITOE – EMMA KAYE – EUSEBIUS MCKAISER – FANNEY TSHIMONG – FEISAL ISRAEL – GARTH FRENCH – GAYLENE PETERS – GEORGE MURUMBA – GERALD KRAAK – GINA TAGLIERI – GLENDA NOEMDOE – GRAHAM PATRICK – GUILLIAN CIRHUZA-KOKO – HAFEEZA RASHED – HARRIET TOLPUTT – HAZEL DE WET – HEETEN KALAN – HEINE VAN WYK – HERBIE AUCAMP – INGRID TUFVESSON – INKA VON STERNEFELS – ISABEL GOODMAN – ISE BOSCH – ISRAEL MQINGWANA – ITAI MUNYARADZI – ITUMELENG MAMABOLO – JACKIE HLONGWANE – JACQUELINE HART – JAY BADZA – JEAN PAUL WARMOES – JEFF ARNSTEIN – JODY COLE – JODY JACOBS – JOE MABILO – JOELINE HLONGWA – JOHAN FOURIE – JOHAN MINY – JOHN FRENCH – JOHN HARVEY – JON STRYKER – JONATHAN COHEN – JORG HASSENBACH – JOSEPH ROCK – JOSEPHE ROCK – JP POTGIETER – JULIANE HIESGEN – JULIE MOOSA FLETCHER – JUNIOR SIDZUMO – JUSTIN GOODMAN – KAITLIN DAVID – KARABO LEDIGA – KARABO NOINYANE – KEITH MUKAMI – KEVIN CHANG – KGOMOTSO KGASI – KHOLEKILE NDAMASE – KOBUS BOOYSEN – KRISTINE STALLONE – LALI MOLEYA – LAURIE ADAMS – LEBO MOTHIBE – LEE-ANN CHAIN – LERATO MOLEFE – LESEGO NGOBENI – LINDA JACOBS – LIOPELO MAPHATHE – LORING MCALPIN – LOUIS FOURIE – LUCKYBOY MKHONDWANE – LUIZ DE BARROS – MAKGANO MAMABOLO – MALUSI MAKHATHINI – MAMOHALE DIMEMA – MARC ABRAHAMS – MARC FLETCHER – MARC VAN BERGEN – MARINUS TERBLANCHE – MARION GREEN-THOMPSON – MARIUS VOS – MARK CANAVERA – MARY SIMONS – MCLEAN KWABE – MELODY MEMELA – MICHAEL ADEE – MICHAEL EDDY – MICHAEL FIELD – MICHELLE ADAMS – MIGUEL DE BRITO – MIRRIAM EDDING – MOLEBATSI TUKA – MPHO THULARE – MUZI MALINDISA – NDABA FUNDI – NDUDUZO NYANDA – NDUMISO MNGOMEZULU – NEDBANK PRIVATE WEALTH – NEIL MAYER – NEO MODISAKENG – NEVILLE GABRIEL – NEVILLE JEFTHA – NEVILLE MOUNTJOY – NHLANHLA NDABA – NKULULEKO NZMANDE – NOAH BERNSTEIN – NOLAN VAN ROOY – NOMA MOTSHOTSHI – NOMZAMO ZONDI – NONTOKOZO MADONSELA – NORMAN MEKGOE – NOXOLO HLONGWANE – NTOMBI KUNENE – ODETTE RAMSINGH – OLWETHU MLAWU – OUMA TEMA – OWEN MOKOENA – PATRICIA WATSON – PATRICK DE BREE – PEDRO RAMOS – PETER GEYER – PETROS ABRAHAM – PHUMI MASHIGO – PIERRE BUCKLEY – PIETER BASSON – REID WILLIAMS – RHINO AFRICA TOURS – RINALDO BOTHA – ROZ LEE – RUAN GOURTEY – RYAN VOLKYN – SAKKIE PRETORIUS – SAMUEL SHAPIRO – SANDRA SIANE – SANDY MOUNTJOY – SEBENZILE NKAMBULE – SELLO NZAMA – SHAKA SISULU – SHARI TURITZ – SHAUN BOOTH – SHAUN VILJOEN – SHEKESHE MOKGOSI – SHELDON PENTZ – SHEREEN JAMES – SIBUSISO MALUNGA – SIMO MVINJEWA – SINENHLANHLA LUTHULI – SIPHO MTHATHI – SIPHOKAZI NOMBANDE – SISANDA MSEKELE – SIVU YISIWE – SIYA NTSALUBA – SLOBODAN RANDJELOVIC – SOLOME LEMMA – SPENCER ECKSTEIN – STEFAN RIEKERT – STIAN LUDIK – STUART SCHEAR – SUE SOAL – SUPRIYA KALIDAS – SYLVESTER CHAUKE – TAKALANI MADZHADZHI – TEBOHO KLAAS – TERRENCE MECK – TERRENCE THONDHLANA – THABISO RATALANE – THAMI KOTLOLO – THAMI O’BRIAN – THAPELO SEKOMA – THATO LETLAPE – THEMBA KALI – THULILE MAHONGA – TOM MKHWANAZI – TRACY GARY – TUMELO KADIKA – TUMI MOHALE – TYRON POULTER – UKHAMBA GIVING PLATFORM – VIRGINIA MAGWAZA – VISTA KALIPA – VIVA LILES-WILKIN – VUYANE MHLOMI – WAYNE MEE – WELISWA RADEBE – WESLEY ADAMS – WINSTON BECKFORD – WYNAND ENGELBRECHT – XHANTI PAYI – YOLISWA MAKHASI – ZACK BOTHA – ZAI LOURENSE – ZAMO ZONDI – ZANDILE NZALO – ZANELE MABENA – ZETHU NKAMBULE – ZINGAPHI NGEWU – ZINI GODDEN – ZINTLE NWABISE – ZIYANDA MAJOZI

T1087/2013G | 168-094NPO | PBO930056168
Nalumino LIKWASI [Zambia] | Rosie MOTENE [South Africa] | Alan MSOSA [Malawi] | Paula SEBASTIAO [Angola]
Danilo DA SILVA [Mozambique] | Caine YOUNGMAN [Botswana] | Neville GABRIEL (CEO)