Colleen Lowe Morna

CEO at Gender Links; women's rights advocate; journalist, author, trainer, researcher, Southern Africa; views expressed are my own, retweets not an endorsement.

Safeguarding women’s rights during the Covid-19 shutdown

Article Susan Tolmay & Colleen Lowe Morna - 24 Mar 2020

Women will be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, particularly considering their contribution as caregivers, in both professional and domestic settings

Show women that you care, Mr President

Article Colleen Lowe Morna & Kubi Rama - 17 May 2019

Ramaphosa has to demonstrate that achieving gender equality in SA is an important goal

Walk the talk against GBV

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 16 Nov 2018

Mr Ramaphosa, you have seen and listened. Now it is time to make SA safe for women

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Gender gap widens in SA media

Article Colleen Lowe Morna & Glenda Daniels - 19 Oct 2018

The latest media figures show that women are slowly advancing, but their experiences tell of little change at the top

Abortion: SA must speak up

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 28 Sep 2018

Our country has a duty to ensure women’s rights are protected here and in the region

Herstory needs to be rewritten and read

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 21 Sep 2018

Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society

Women the biggest losers in Zim election

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 6 Jul 2018

The die has been cast against them, despite the reassurances of the country’s new leader

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We can back SA’s golden girl by challenging our stereotypes

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 4 May 2018

Supporting Caster Semenya means more than embracing her as an athlete

Cyril, the purple shall govern

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 23 Feb 2018

'You wore a purple tie for Sona. Let’s paint South Africa purple!'

Feminism’s got its groove back

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 19 Jan 2018

The Trump era seems to have revitalised the urgency to tackle gender inequality

NDZ can’t play a patriarchy victim

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 20 Dec 2017

The women’s league failed to promote gender equality and, as a minister, Bathabile Dlamini used Zuma’s patronage to survive her disasters

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Zimbabwe can learn from Ghana’s political and economic success

Article Colleen Lowe Morna - 16 Nov 2017

These countries share many similarities, including falls from grace and redemption, but it’s clear that military takeovers don’t salvage democracy

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Press Releases

Special Reports

Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

Special Reports

Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

Special Reports

Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

Special Reports

Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

Special Reports

Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

Special Reports

POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs

Special Reports

CUT declared as medium risk

special reports - 15 Sep 2020

‘Our major challenge at the university is the access to appropriate technology and internet connectivity for our students’

Special Reports

Headline Speakers announced for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 12 Sep 2020

SingularityU announces multi-national line up with world-renowned speakers addressing ground-breaking topics to solve the global grand challenges