- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Special Initiatives
- Grant Amount $50,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2007–December 31, 2007
- Location Durban, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
Strini Moodley was one of the founders of South Africa’s black consciousness movement. A contemporary comrade and colleague of the late Steve Bantu Biko, father of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Strini was incarcerated on Robben Island for five years for his beliefs in a free, democratic, just, and nonracial South Africa. During his life, he was also jailed on numerous other occasions, regularly tortured by the South African security police, and constantly placed under banning orders and house arrests, which limited his access to people and prevented him from pursuing his professional career as a journalist. This grant will provide support to the Umtapo Centre, the organization he founded, to establish the Strini Moodley Leadership Fund to honor his contribution to the struggle for freedom in South Africa. The fund will be dedicated to supporting critical dialogue and leadership development in South Africa and on the African continent. It also will be a forum for debate and discussion on all the challenges that face South Africa as it struggles to build a nonracial democracy which respects equality, diversity, and tolerance.