Category: September 2007

An international conference on 'Globalisation of the Gandhian way: Sociology, Politics and Science of Satyagraha' to mark the centenary of Satyagraha is being organized in India. The conference will be held from 13th to 16 November in New Delhi and 17th to 20th November in Champaran ( Bhithiharava Ashram Museum established by Gandhiji in 1817).…

Big business exercises social responsibility While the world is experiencing repeated disasters in the form of tidal waves, earthquakes, monster hurricanes, excessive rainfalls, heat waves and frosty weather, on the other hand war weapons are being manufactured and in many parts of the world we see carnage and destruction. Nuclear power is being explored without…

By Satyagraha Reporter September is a month when we celebrate our heritage.   South Africa has had two kinds of heritage, one an apartheid heritage where a philosophy of separation of accentuation of differences and of a hierarchical relationship between the races was nurtured and two a large section of the liberation heritage where commonality, unity…

By Satyagraha Reporter The Women's Hope Education and Training (WHEAT) Trust was launched on National Women's day, 9 August 1998. The trust was established with the two primary aims of women empowerment and promoting a culture of giving. Nomvuyo Dayile, director of the trust said, “WHEAT Trust awards grants to organisations and individual women who…