Aimed primarily at activists, educators and queer communities,
Pocket Queerpedia is an illustrated glossary of terms that can be used tp teach on queerness.
The guide, which covers everything from definitions of nuclear family and ball culture to sex chromosomes and medical transitioning, was developed by the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Cape Town.
Although there are plans to produce it in other African languages, it is currently available in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa.
“This whole project was like, ‘Ah, fuck this shit,’” Mase Ramaru laughs, recalling the difficulties of translating into isiXhosa the terms and definitions found in the recently released
On 23 January 2021, land experts and activists, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and Professor Ruth Hall, were hosted by Siviwe Mdoda, land justice educator at the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, for the first of a series of webinar discussions on the currently tabled Expropriation Bill.
The premise of the discussion was that the Expropriation Act 63 of 1975 is out of date and does not provide for the government to expropriate land for the purposes of land reform and restitution in recognition of previous land dispossession as stated in Section 25 of the Constitution.
Mdoda noted that while land expropriation was supported by land activists, it was a discussion that made land owners nervous, mostly because of the history and politics of land in South Africa. He said it was for this reason that the discussion needed to be platformed, allowing for a deepened understanding of the Expropriation Bill of 2020, which is an amendment of the Expropriation Act of 1975.