News

Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Karel
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06 Dec, 2013

The Soul City Institute extends its condolences to the Mandela family. Like everyone across the world, we received the news of Tata’s passing with great sadness and disbelief. Although he had been sick for a while, I do not think that we would ever be ready to say goodbye to him.

Campaign against HIV/AIDS scores stunning results
Karel
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30 Nov, 2013

The results of a campaign by Africa's largest social change communication organisation, the Johannesburg-based Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (Soul City), indicate very strongly that the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa can be beaten back if there is sufficient will and committed support for worthy programmes.

New partners join Eldis in “Open Knowledge Hub” project
Karel
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29 Nov, 2013

Eldis is joining forces with eight new partner organisations in a new collaborative project, provisionally called the “Open Knowledge Hub”, to support knowledge producers and consumers, particularly those in developing countries, to improve the availability and accessibility of global development research.

Alcohol Advertising Ban on ENCA’s Judge For Yourself
Karel
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19 Nov, 2013

Soul City’s Savera Kalideen together with the Department of Social Development’s Zane Dangor participated in a televised debate on the impact of the alcohol advertising legislation on Judge Dennis Davis’s show, “Judge for Yourself”.