my-server
← Wiki

Open Society Foundation for South Africa

The Open Society Foundation for South Africa is a South African non-profit grant-making organisation that supports the civil society sector. Its mission is to "promote the values, institutions and practices of an open, non-racial and non-sexist, democratic civil society."

Organization

The foundation was established by George Soros in 1993, just prior to the dismantling of apartheid and South Africa's transition to democracy.

From 2013 to 2019, its Executive Director was Fatima Hassan a human rights lawyer and social justice activist.

The organisation is connected to the Open Society Foundations.

See also

References