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Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala

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The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she hates horror movies
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South African football has lost a feminist in Anele Ngcongca

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The Bafana Bafana defender valued women who loved sport
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Review: Cohen’s fire lacks fuel in ‘Borat’ sequel

Friday -
The film interrogates patriarchy, but the baseness of the US means there’s nothing left to send up
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Women are entitled to own land

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Too many laws and customs in too many African countries still treat women as minors
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Extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’: How we choose to fashion ourselves

Friday -
How we choose to dress is an instrument to communicate personal, race, class, gender and identity politics, as discussed in this extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’
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Protecting women on campuses is a priority

Education , & -
A GBV policy framework that achieves gender equality in the post-school education sector and broader society needs to be urgently implemented
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We need more women in STEM careers

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Local solutions are needed to get more women into science, technology, engineering and maths
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Why Uganda needs a Stella Nyanzi in Parliament

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Many Ugandans find Stella Nyanzi’s mode of protest, including vulgar insults and stripping to make a point, unsettling. But her challenge to the country’s patriarchy could bring much-needed reform
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Some black lives matter, others don’t

Opinion -
We condemn the killing of a black Americans, yet women, African foreigners and queer people are regularly abused and killed in SA
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Covid-19 pandemic: An opportunity to press the reset button on capitalism?

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Human greed has brought us to the brink of societal collapse. It is time for a student-led revolution to promote a transition to a new economic system
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Women in the Middle East North African region pushing back against patriarchy

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The scales are still tilted in favour of men, but younger people with tertiary education have less discriminatory attitudes
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Death penalty won’t stop sexual violence

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It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
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EDITORIAL: ConCourt finds patriarchy guilty

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The main judgment of acting judge Rammaka Mathopo starkly exposes the irrationality, rooted in patriarchy
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Patriarchy, migration fuel Afrophobia

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City streets are ‘washed’ to cleanse them of work competitors and for moral, cultural and social restoration
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‘Manning up’  fuels male anxiety

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The stigma of mental health disorders stops men from seeking help, often resulting in the adoption of destructive coping mechanisms
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Zuma won’t appear before Zondo commission on Monday, say his lawyers

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Last year the commission asked the Constitutional Court to force the former president to appear. Although ruling has not been made, the summons remains valid, but Zuma’s lawyers say they won’t honour it

Molefe blames Ramaphosa for Eskom’s woes in statement to Zondo commission

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Brian Molefe guns for Cyril Ramaphosa, alleging that the president’s relationship with Glencore was only a ploy to siphon money out of Eskom

Zondo commission: Lynne Brown reportedly says ‘eish’ when told of Zuma’s alleged Eskom meddling

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More allegations against Jacob Zuma put before the state capture commission, as the questions the former president will have to answer when he appears next week continue to stack up

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