Monthly Archives: Dec 2020

A careful Christmas as the world waits on a vaccine

Christmas or the festive season this year is going to look very different across the globe with many families separated by COVID-19 prevention measures such as country-specific lockdowns, travel restrictions and strict social distancing policies and policing in place. This comes as major blow for many people who were hoping to be able to spend the holidays with their loved ones. However, with the resurgences of infections across the world, essential limitations have been applied and local or international travel between countries that are deemed hot spots is no longer viable. This is applicable in South Africa too. With COVID-19 showing no signs of slowing down at […]

Faking it – how to tell if news is real or fake

Fake news is everywhere, and that’s truly a bit scary. But what does that even mean and with today’s information overload – how on earth can we tell the real from the fake? With most of us being inundated with varying forms of news and information from a variety of sources continuously, it can be really hard to discern the real from the fake, and sometimes even harder to resist the temptation to unknowingly share that fake information. Social media makes this particularly easy, and certainly increases the likelihood of us being exposed to fake news as it provides a much quicker and easier channel […]

Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!

16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV) is an international campaign instituted by the United Nations which promotes activities that drive activism and awareness around gender based violence from the 25^th of November to the 10^th of December every year. Each year a specific theme is assigned to the 16 day period. This year the global theme is “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!” The annual 16 Days of Activism campaign was first started by activists at the 1991 inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute and has subsequently been organised annually by the Women’s Global Leadership Centre.

As part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign, the United Nations […]