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Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

Lamola launches his campaign to become ANC deputy president in Mabuza’s stronghold

The justice minister has used current deputy president David Mabuza’s backyard in Ehlanzeni as a venue to launch his campaign to realise his top six ambitions

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
The PwC report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was analysed. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
HELEN JOSEPH

When women change, society changes

People can seek out businesses and nonprofit organisations that offer educational opportunities for people of all ages to realise their potential

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
A Federation of South African Women
FEMINIST HISTORY

Liberation’s forgotten foot soldiers

History often ignores the role played by women and their struggle against the problems they face

  • Gugulethu Mhlungu
6 min read
#TheTotalShutDown: The march, which marked the start of Women’s Month, could represent a total shift in the trajectory of gender politics in South Africa. (David Harrison)
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Beyond #TheTotalShutdown: Lessons for the movement

The frictions that came to the fore at the march expose a need for forms of mobilisation independent of party politics

  • Philile Ntuli
6 min read
The author recalls the Bree Street of his youth
APARTHEID

Goodbye Bree Street

Tinyiko Maluleke’s nostalgia takes him back to Bree Street in Johannesburg, which has been renamed to honour ANC struggle stalwart Lilian Ngoyi.

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read