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Sarah Setlaelo

Sarah Setlaelo is a writer with a master of philosophy degree from the University of Johannesburg and a qualification in African feminism and gender studies from the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute.

Kayaking in John W. Weeks Bridge and clock tower over Charles River, Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Boston Massachusetts. (Photo by: Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Harvard and RAU: Affirmative action and the slippery slopes of liberalism and nationalism

The Harvard affirmative action case achieved the opposite of what was expected; white students increased, African Americans decreased and the Asian American numbers stagnated

(John McCann/M&G)

Sexism, feminism and humanism: The irreconcilable trio

It is possible to know and understand what feminism as an ideology is, and what a feminist identity really means, without necessarily subscribing to them

Secretary general Fikile Mbalula says the ANC’s top seven leaders will not automatically step down should the party lose the elections.  Photo: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G

South Africa is in limbo – it’s neither Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ nor uhuru

The ANC-led government is not a totalitarian regime and our constitutional democracy is healthy, but some people are still more equal than others

(John McCann/M&G)

What does patriarchy actually mean?

Powerful concepts are not immune to losing their strength when overused or misunderstood

NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND – JANUARY 19: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation at the War Memorial Centre on January 19, 2023 in Napier, New Zealand. (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images)

Lessons in feminism from the leadership of New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

The loss of a female political leader of the calibre of Ardern should be mourned, in the context of our troubled world

Police records reveal that more than 100 women are raped each day in South Africa.
(Photo: AFP/Marco Longari)

Gender-based violence is an interpersonal and societal problem

Mabogo Percy More argues that the values in society reflects the structure of that society, and tends to preserve it — but it can always be transcended towards other systems

Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images

African feminism can be an instrument of social, political and economic change in the fourth industrial revolution

Activism with a feminist vision can effect political change and the feminisation of the work agenda can bring about economic change