The M&G’s first Rainbow fellow, Carl Collison, shares why issues affecting the LGBTI community on the continent are so important to him.
​Education and opportunity are key to stemming the tide of HIV in South Africa’s young women.
Local films are finally depicting black lives but the ditzy heroine and her man preserve gender roles.
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Rwanda has shown that improved nutrition lifts individuals, families, communities and economies.
And there it was: the assumption that I cannot cook simply because I choose to dress up and wear make-up regularly.
Women have learned to become smaller, more silent and as invisible as possible while navigating their lives. No more!
Androgyny used to be scandalous. Now it’s become de rigueur, and not a moment too soon.
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However strong the social and economic benefits, the question of how we connect more women still remains.
There’s been no measurable improvement to the issue of gender-based violence in the last decade. Why does SA appear to hate its women so much?
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
With articles on guitar goddesses such as St Vincent written by women, the magazine dispels the myth that learning to shred is a male-only pursuit.
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Social roles can’t just be assigned according to one’s genitalia – we need new pronouns.
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When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn’t. And they weren’t a boy either.
Are 50 percent of men abusers?, asks Khaya Dlanga
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For we gender activists the Open Mosque is not quite so new. For over 20 years we’ve waged a gender jihad to gain inclusive access to mosques.
Our courts reflect huge progress in relation to race since democracy, but tarry on gender.
Feminism is dealing not just with sexism, but also its own uneasy relationship with privilege and race.
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The lobbying for female representation within the ANC is being used as a political tool as three male-led provinces are brought into the spotlight.
A film screening looks at how movies influence, challenge and even change public opinion and discourse around gender, sexuality and human rights.
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/ 9 December 2011
How do we begin to change the perceptions around menstruation?
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/ 8 December 2010
South Africa has a balance of men and women in Parliament that would rival Nordic countries, but it shouldn’t rest on its laurels.
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/ 26 November 2010
The disproportionate burden of HIV/Aids borne by women and girls in most developing countries requires urgent attention. At the heart of the problem is profound gender inequality and inequity, coupled with the systematic disempowerment of women, condoned by society for generations. Although a global problem, it is particularly evident in developing countries and the HIV/Aids […]
The National Assembly approves law amendments to allow women born out of customary marriages to inherit from their deceased parents’ estate.
Gender activists breathed a sigh of relief when a long-delayed gender protocol was signed at the SADC summit in Johannesburg this weekend.
Aninka Claassens, Helene Combrinck, Zubeda Dangor, Zohra Dawood, Vuyiseka Dubula, Pregs Govender, Fatima Hassan and more …