"In South Africa, fighting occupies the space between everything".
What do we lose when we characterise sexual coercion as a romantic blunder – and who gains from that loss?
Grace Mugabe’s failings as a ‘mother of the nation’ contaminated President Mugabe’s image as a ‘real man’, allowing him to be challenged by rivals
The question should be: Is the candidate (a man or a woman) best person for the job?
The level of outrage at wrongdoing should be weighted by harm done to the vulnerable. Instead, the Ombud seems more sensitive to harmed privilege
Don’t mourn for us. Rather protect us while we are still among you.
Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile reflects on the impact toxic masculinity and patriarchy have had on her.
When I have conversations with women, they ask about my religion and my reasons for wearing hijab.
Proposing that white women form a movement of their own is exclusionary, racist and contrary to feminism as a body of beliefs and not an identity.
Where is white feminism for young white girls who are not starting groups at their schools about the things that are troubling them?
Oxfam is launching a global campaign to change patriarchal beliefs that harm women and girls.
The internet treated it like the next Brangelina breakup.
Women are still being systematically subjugated by the ‘head’ of the household whose word is law.
Swaziland’s chief legal adviser has his knickers in a knot over a ‘threat’ posed to the patriarchal kingdom.
The ANC Women’s League’s decision to march in support of the supreme patriarch is ill considered.
‘Burn the boys’ or ‘Let them be boys’ are both unhelpful reactions to the photo of schoolboys simulating rape, argues one private boys schoolteacher.
Displacement, climate change and entrenched abuse block the support women need to enter the agriculture sector, and to be able own land.
Readers speak out on nuclear energy, patriarchy in the church and on Muizenberg.
Feminists who generate more rage than understanding do themselves – and their cause – a disservice, writes Verashni Pillay.
The case has provoked outrage and anger, coming against a background of rising violence against women in India.