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  • Steve Biko - My Revolution
  • Celebrating National Women’s Day in Cape Town
  • SGI-SA featured in SGI Quarterly
  • Celebrating satyagraha
  • Gandhi, King, Ikeda

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SGI South Africa has been attracting some media attention. On South African Human Rights Day, March 21, our general director, Loren Kabosha, represesented us in a Human Rights Special live broadcast. On Sunday April 6, Loren Kabosha will appear again, on Encounters on SABC2 at 12h30, a programme focusing on fraud and corruption. Then on […]

On Saturday 8 September, at 6.30pm (doors open 6pm), SGI South Africa in Johannesburg will be hosting My Revolution, a tribute to Steve Biko in dance, music, song, storytelling and poetry.
My Revolution will include a performance by poet Khosi Xaba. The venue is the SGI South Africa community centre in Johannesburg, corner of Dudley and […]

Cape Town member Julie Catto writes:– 9th August in South Africa is Women’s Day, a public holiday, so we decided to do an outreach activity in a nearby community. Our plan was to create a peace garden at a member’s home; we chose Sweetness, a member who lives near Cape Town in a tiny home […]

A profile and history of SGI South Africa was published in the January edition of SQI Quarterly, the English-language journal of SGI.
Written for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, SGI Quarterly describes the peace-building activities of SGI and other organisations and persons with similar philosophies. The article on South Africa describes the context in which […]

The 11th of September 1906 witnessed the birth of a peace movement in South Africa, an event that had resonance throughout the world. On this date, Mahatma Gandhi launched Satyagraha, a movement for non-violent activism in protest at racist laws proposed by the South African administration. In celebration of this centenary, SGI-South Africa, in partnership […]

Building the Foundations of Peace - The ‘Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace’ Exhibition was brought to South Africa by SGI-SA in 2004.
The ‘Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace’ Exhibition highlights the commitment to human rights and world peace by men and women of different cultures, personalities, and ethnic backgrounds - […]