Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
soul citylatest news & developments
The new cohort of FLAC Fellows (2024-2026) with Soul City staff, Deputy Minister Steve Letsike and Senior Programme Officer Nicky Le Roux.

Soul City celebrates its inaugural Feminist Leadership and Activism Centre fellows

These 20 young leaders are now poised to step into their roles as advocates for social justice

The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.

Youth-focused programmes are a crucial component of preventing teenage pregnancy

A multi-stakeholder approach has been implement to improve teenagers’ access to sexual and reproductive health rights services

Teenage pregnancy needs to move from pointing out problems to finding solutions

Less talk, more solutions, says Soul City on teen pregnancy debates

The institute is hosting a webinar to discuss South Africa’s teen pregnancy rates and child rape

Video

Condom crisis hits safe sex during Covid-19

Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply

An ANC election campaign poster lies in the rubbish in Sharpeville. (Ihsaan Haffejee/M&G)

Splurge does little for Sharpeville

Residents are angry that commemorating the massacre has not resulted in a better life for them

Innocent Nkatha

How we became a society

Taking the notion of "social cohesion" out of the academic field and into the real world is not as tricky as it seems.

Criminalising teen sex is getting us nowhere

Criminalising teen sex is getting us nowhere

The Sexual Offences Act of 2007, which criminalises consensual sex and kissing from 12 to 16-year-olds, is not helping HIV rates, a forum has heard.

Froth set to fly over liquor strictures

Froth set to fly over liquor strictures

A substance abuse summit has suggested tightening the alcohol laws.

Some restrictions remain in place. Alcohol is only allowed to be sold from 9am to 5pm, and only in liquor stores — not in bars or restaurants.

Alcohol abuse plagues schools

The Soul City Phuza Wize Drink Safe Live Safe campaign has come up with a new way to make schools alcohol-free.

Buddyz walk the cork

Buddyz walk the cork

Popular TV series shows how schools can be made alcohol-free zones.