Women Forward: A Gendered Look At SA Politics
Women Forward (WF) began as a grassroots movement on farmland, planted among women who were marginalised. Domestic workers, farm workers and women from rural...
National Shutdown Planned Against Gender-Based Violence
An organisation of feminist and gender activists is calling for a Total Shutdown and Intersectional Women's March Against Gender-based Violence on August 1. It...
Extract from Andy Kawa’s book about getting justice for women
Kwanele, Enough! My Battle with the South African Police Service to get Justice for Women is businessperson Andy Kawa’s story. In 2010, she was...
#RealMonstersOfSA Campaign Used Halloween To Raise GBV Awareness
Over the Halloween weekend in South Africa, a campaign was launched to raise awareness about gender-based violence (GBV). Two organisations came together for the...
Should artists conform to South Africans’ sensibilities?
Ayanda Mabulu has caused shock with his latest painting, which depicts President Jacob Zuma engaged in a sexual act with Nelson Mandela. Mabulu called...
#MeToo: two words that broke the silence around sexual abuse
When the New York Times broke the story about Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexually assaulting and harassing women, it threw into focus what women...
After the Bo-Kaap video, how do we support survivors of gender-based...
A viral video uploaded to YouTube in which a woman details allegations of paedophillia against her paternal grandfather has left many of us...
#RUReferenceList And The Fight Against Rape Culture Still Wages On
Two years after the fight against patriarchy, misogyny, and rape culture at universities made headlines, the battle still rages on. Those survivors at Rhodes...
Gender Based Violence law amendments could do more harm
Covid-19 has exposed so many cracks in South African society, gender-based violence being one of them. Public participation in government is so important. That...
Minority Front: SA Must Have Separate Ministries For Minorities
"The day Indian minorities say they don't need the Minority Front (MF) to protect their rights and that they're comfortable in the new democracy...
#ThisIsMyVagina: inspiration for women in male-dominated spaces
Naledi Chirwa, the national spokesperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC), recently told women and girls to take ownership of their vaginas...
#MyBodyMyChoice: The Right To Safe Abortion Is Protected By Law
Cries of "my body, my choice", "my vagina, my choice" and "phansi unsafe abortions" rang in the air in the name of the campaign...
Black Girlhood And The Unbearable Weight Of Knowing Too Much
Naledi Yaziyo explores a number of ways in which black girls are expected to grow up too fast and pay the price of knowing...
Gender-Based Violence victims are #NotJustANumber
With an additional 9556 people having had reported rape between July 1 2021 to September 20 2021, South Africa still remains the destination of...
UCT SRC suspends two members over sexual offence allegations
On Wednesday the University of Cape Town (UCT) Student Representative Council (SRC) informed the UCT community that it had suspended two of its members...
Poem: The Night Visitor
Poem by PRYZ da poet
He came in the middle of the night and whispered in the ears of men and said to them "...
Womxn are not safe, even in activist spaces
Recent revelations of alleged sexual misconduct at civil organisation Equal Education (EE) by three senior male staff members remind us that organisations and movements...
We need #SafeTaxisNow because women are sick of harassment at taxi...
Millions of women in South Africa use taxis to commute daily. According to Action Aid SA, 69% of women who use taxis say they...
Mampintsha And Babes Back In Court
Last week, a video showing musician Mampintsha allegedly assaulting Gqom Queen and his long-time partner Babes Wodumo emerged, an incident which landed Mampintsha in...
NMU remains shut down amid security concerns
Students at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) shut down both the south and north campuses on Tuesday in protest over poor campus security. The shutdown...