ChangeWaves

16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence: What is your role?

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

It is that time of the year again when everybody from politicians to grassroots people will be talking about violence against women! I was chanced to visit one of the victim empowerment centres in Gauteng this week and I was surprised to find blood stained towels left by a survivor of domestic violence who had [...]

AIDS is real: Celebrating my 18 year old nephew, Brian Kawonawo’s life

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

0 Comments

He was a healthy eight month old baby boy. Making bubble’s with his saliva, making incomprehensible noises like all babies his age usually do. Trying to crawl and pull everything in his vicinity. My nephew Brain Kawonawo, was handsome and super sweet. Then he came down with a fever and that trip to the hospital [...]

9/11: Where were you? I remember….

Monday, September 12, 2011

0 Comments

It was a bright Tuesday I remember, when I switched on the television to watch whatever was showing after I was done with my house chores. And there it was ….breaking news on DW television The Twin Towers had been bombed. As a-wanna-be journalist then, I quickly remembered the bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi [...]

The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2011

Monday, August 22, 2011

0 Comments

Please find here The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2011. This issue is the fifth of an annual series covering 213 countries around the world, and providing a wide range of the statistics on the ICT sector including the economic and social context, the sector structure, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector [...]

A toast to the tough sisters!

Thursday, August 11, 2011

0 Comments

These are my babies. These are my children. I will take care of them even if their father doesn’t help, my downstairs neighbor declared when I paid them a courtesy call to see her newly born grandchildren. Her daughter was barely 15 when she fell pregnant. I was furious because she had run from school [...]

South Africa Celebrates Women’s Day for the 17th Time

Thursday, August 11, 2011

0 Comments

August 9 in South Africa marks a day in 1956 when thousands of women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the oppressive pass laws in Apartheid South Africa. Their slogan “wathint’ umfazi, wathint’ mbokodo” (when you strike a woman you strike a rock) was one of the acts that led to [...]

Google wants more African content online

Monday, August 1, 2011

0 Comments

In this interview with ITNewsAfrica, Brett StClair, Head of Mobile, Google South Africa, talks about the evolution of mobile media in Africa and the exciting times ahead for Google on the continent. ITNewsAfrica.com: What are the most recent developments in mobile media on the African continent? Brett StClair: The mobile Internet continues to see [...]

FrontlineSMS to bring mobile tools to journalists around the world

Thursday, July 21, 2011

0 Comments

FrontlineSMS will develop new tools to enable digital news gathering anywhere there’s a mobile signal, with $250,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support is part of the Knight News Challenge, an annual media innovation contest founded and run by Knight Foundation, and supported this year by Google. With the [...]

Interesting Article on IT and Education in South Africa

Monday, July 18, 2011

0 Comments

The South African government is making a move to end an eight-year software donation deal with Microsoft, after monetised terms were introduced. The Gauteng Online Schools Project (GOSP) was a beneficiary of the donation programme and will not be able to afford the new terms, according to Dick Rayner, project manager at the Gauteng Department [...]

ESSAY COMPETITION:Looking at ICTs and Agriculture in Africa through the eyes of women and the youth

Friday, July 15, 2011

1 Comment

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) have joined forces in celebrating NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary. It is within this context of reflecting over the advancement of the African development agenda, that the two institutions are jointly organising an essay competition under the theme; [...]