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On 17 August, 40 years ago, the inveterate socialist Ruth First was assassinated in Maputo under the orders of Apartheid spy Craig Williamson.
AHMED KATHRADA FOUNDATION

Ruth First remembered 40 years after her death

It is 40 years since Ruth First was assassinated. What would she say about South Africa today?

  • Melody Emmett
6 min read
(RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
BISEXUAL

OPINION | Pride month: Social attitudes still have a way to go

Let us celebrate this event together and move towards a fully inclusive world.

  • Amukelani Maluleke
4 min read
Rhoda Kadalie. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
ACADEMIC

OPINION | Rhoda Kadalie, the loudmouth, is dead

The anti-apartheid activist, feminist and fighter was outspoken and for this made enemies. But she had heart — lots of heart. She died on 16 April

  • Jerome September
6 min read
Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images
4IR

African feminism can be an instrument of social, political and economic change in the fourth industrial revolution

Activism with a feminist vision can effect political change and the feminisation of the work agenda can bring about economic change

  • Sarah Setlaelo
6 min read
Who do South Africans think does the raping in this country — the level of rape that one sees in active conflict zones? The scale of rape that it gets to be called by what it is — a femicide?
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

The threat of rape helps keep the vulnerable in line

Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour

  • Ayesha Fakie
6 min read
An abortion rights advocate holds up a hanger during a rally to protest new restrictions on abortions, May 21, 2019, in West Hollywood, California. – Demonstrations were planned across the US on Tuesday in defense of abortion rights, which activists see as increasingly under attack. The “Day of Action” rallies come after the state of Alabama passed the country’s most restrictive abortion ban, prohibiting the procedure in all cases, even rape and incest, unless the mother’s life is at risk. Alabama is among about 14 states which have adopted laws banning or drastically restricting access to abortion, according to activists. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
ABORTIONS

Whose life is it anyway?

The way we deal with abortion is shaped and directed by the language we use to talk about it

  • Annica Marinkowitz
5 min read
Anele Ngcongca of South Africa during the Orange AFCON, Morocco 2015 Final Round Qualifier match between South Africa and Nigeria at Cape Town Stadium on September 10, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Carl Fourie/Gallo Images)
ANELE NGCONGCA

South African football has lost a feminist in Anele Ngcongca

The Bafana Bafana defender valued women who loved sport

  • Siwaphiwe Myataza
4 min read
Helping hand: Nelisiwe Xaba’s performance lecture ‘Bang Bang Wo’ examines the baggage that comes with help. ( Stella Olivier/ The Centre For The Less Good Idea)
ART

The cyclical politics of help

Black women and trans artists are worthy of support but it should not come with terms and restrictions

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
5 min read
Rather than marching on the JSE to ask companies to contribute money to fighting gender-based violence, it would arguably be better to hold companies to account for how they fail to address these issues internally. (David Harrison/M&G)
ABUSE

Use the workplace to stop socially embedded violence

The judicial system alone and appealing to miscreants has not stopped attacks on women

  • Seán Mfundza Muller
9 min read