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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
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
Ramaphosa has to demonstrate that achieving gender equality in SA is an important goal
Walk the talk against GBV
Mr Ramaphosa, you have seen and listened. Now it is time to make SA safe for women
Gender gap widens in SA media
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
Our country has a duty to ensure women’s rights are protected here and in the region
Herstory needs to be rewritten and read
Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society
Women the biggest losers in Zim election
The die has been cast against them, despite the reassurances of the country’s new leader
We can back SA’s golden girl by challenging our stereotypes
Supporting Caster Semenya means more than embracing her as an athlete
Cyril, the purple shall govern
‘You wore a purple tie for Sona. Let’s paint South Africa purple!’
Feminism’s got its groove back
The Trump era seems to have revitalised the urgency to tackle gender inequality
NDZ can’t play a patriarchy victim
The women’s league failed to promote gender equality and, as a minister, Bathabile Dlamini used Zuma’s patronage to survive her disasters
Zimbabwe can learn from Ghana’s political and economic success
These countries share many similarities, including falls from grace and redemption, but it’s clear that military takeovers don’t salvage democracy
Leaders must walk the talk of gender equality
It is not enough to say there must be a woman president. Candidates must lead by example and spell out exactly what they aim to do
State must join citizens to fight femicide
South Africa has to tackle the scourge in the same visionary way it has fought against HIV and Aids
Women’s rights groups starved of cash
The harsh reality is that progressive gender work in Southern Africa is being hamstrung by changing economic realities in the north.