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File photo: University of Stellenbosch students embark on a Start Letting Us Talk (SLUT) march during International Women’s Day commemoration on March 07, 2017 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. (Photo by Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Resisting gender discrimination: The call for resocialisation in South Africa

Changing damaging socio-cultural norms that justify discrimination against women is a powerful form of resistance

Brutal Fruit Spritzer launches first women-only venue in Soweto

A safe place where women can let their hair down

I still reap the rewards of my mother’s prayers

So many strong black women are marginalised and forgotten — and their roles seen as expected and natural

circa 1890: American abolitionist leader and former slave Harriet Tubman (1820 – 1913), who led over 300 escaped slaves to freedom, including her parents, through the underground railroad.   (MPI/Getty Images)

South Africa needs to celebrate pioneering women activists like Alice Victoria Kinloch

Cape Town-born human rights activist, who challenged the conditions of black miners, who were abused as cheap labour on instructions of arch British imperialists such as Barney…

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Editorial: Women’s Month misread

For the past three weeks, big business, government and your garden-variety Instagram influencer have turned themselves into women’s rights activists

Captain Happy Jele speaks to players during the Absa Premiership match between Orlando Pirates and Chippa United at Orlando Stadium on January 8 2018 in Johannesburg. (Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images)

Dr Sibu Qhogwana

Clinical psychologist

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Our universities must stop being sites of women abuse

‘Clearly our universities are no welcoming safe spaces for women,’ writes Lukhona Mnguni

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Editorial: Strike down rape culture

‘Today, women might be politically free like all other South Africans, but they remain enslaved in the shackles of a predatory patriarchy’

Many womxn who live and work on farms have suffered immensely during the Covid-19 lockdown. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)

Why black women in South Africa don’t fully embrace the feminist discourse

Women’s Day marks the protest of women against apartheid policies. But six decades on black women have yet to fully embrace feminism as a discourse.

The South African women’s hockey team is but one example of women working their hardest and fighting to be their best.
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There are many ways in which women can win

Let’s not patronise women with public holidays, holidays and meaningless events. Rather give women the space and opportunity to inspire each other.

‘Freedom a reality for only a few women’

Freedom from oppression is only a reality for a fortunate few women in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance said on National Women’s Day.