We’re Backing These Proteas Players To Slay At The World Cup
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's World Cup kicks off on June 24th until July 23rd 2017. This year's competition is being jointly hosted...
South African women are slaying at the Special Olympics Winter Games
Bianca Basson, Thato Serepedi, Joanne Crowley and Caroline Mignolet are four South African athletes slaying in the figure-skating competition at the Special Olympics, which...
The value of women’s labour: Being a writer, woman and mother...
The third day of Time of the Writer was an explosion of literary magic as libraries and schools across Durban featured talented writers discussing...
Ten reasons South Africa doesn’t suck right now – February edition
February saw a visit from a natural disaster named Dineo, a whole lot of rain in one part of the country and very dry...
The issues with the Nike ad that we aren’t talking about
Nike recently launched a video showcasing the many talents of female Arab athletes doing their thing, accompanied by the tagline “What will they say...
Ten poems by black women the world needs to read right...
The world is a scary and uncertain space right now, fraught with fragility, and sometimes it's just too much to cope with. We get...
Muslim women’s narratives belong to no one but them
For a lot of Muslims, living in president Donald Trump's world is a difficult reality to accept. We are constantly reassuring people of our...
Ten South African women who slayed in 2016
This year has been quite a turbulent one, but SA women stay slaying. The Daily Vox rounds up ten South African women who were...
From witnessing conflict to being the first African female judge at...
Africans need to be involved in courts - says Julia Sebutinde, the first African female judge in the United Nations' International Court of Justice....
Six women we’re backing to slay at this year’s Paralympics
While we’re incredibly proud of our Olympians for their ten medals from #Rio2016, we know that our Paralympic team will give us plenty to...
For Colored Girls explores what it means to be a black...
Ntozake Shange’s music-drama, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, is a work of poetry, music and improvisational dance...
We asked grade 4s to draw Caster and what they did...
When Caster Semenya won Olympic gold last Sunday, the whole country lit up with pride - and its children were no exception. The Daily...
Caster, you remind us that we all have a place in...
When Caster Semenya won the 800m heat at Olympic final in Rio on Sunday, the entire nation was sleeping. Well, most of us, at...
There are still people who are not happy for Caster Semenya
NEWS COMMENTARY
Caster Semenya goes down in history as the first black South African woman to bring home gold.
But the haters gonna hate, right?
Joanna Jozwik,...
Sophie de Bruyn In Her Own Words
Alongside Lilian Ngoyi, Rahima Moosa, Helen Joseph and Albertina Sisulu, Sophie de Bruyn led a march of 20,000 women on the Union Buildings in...
Why Navi Pillay can help us solve our xenophobia problems
Lawyer Navi Pillay is set to head up a provincial commission set up by the KZN premier Senzo Mchunu to investigate the recent spate...
The Feminist Stokvel’s Hair Soirée and SA’s natural-hair evolution
On Thursday night a group of grown women will get together at a swanky Melrose coffee shop to do each other’s hair.
To many, it...
The Weekly Dissident: Myesha Jenkins, socialist, feminist, internationalist “race” woman
In the Weekly Dissident today, Mphutlane wa Bofelo converses with feminist activist and poet, Myesha Jenkins.
MwB: I understand that you only started writing upon...
#sexistSA: Women working underground
Over the past decade, South Africa has seen more women enter the mining industry than ever before. It was only when the Mines Health...
Solar powered schoolbags wins young SA entrepreneur recognition
An idea to turn plastic bags into school bags that double as solar powered lights that can enable leaners to study after dark has...
