Uyinene Mrwetyana
latest news & developmentsGabi Motuba and the sound of sacred resistance
Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation
Gender-based violence a cycle of silence, outrage and forgotten names
We need to ensure gender-based violence stays on the agenda beyond the headlines and the hashtags during Women’s Month
Uyinene Mrwetyana’s family want Post Office transformed into “a place of healing”
Hundreds marched to the Clareinch post office in Claremont to commemorate four years since her rape and murder
Editorial | Ntokozo Xaba: There’s nowhere to hide for black women in a country designed to suppress
This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street
Art of activism: 16 artists against gender violence
Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
No sign of promised R1.6-bn for gender-based violence
The government has pledged funds to fight gender-based violence and femicide
The Grief of Strangers
Through Umhlobo Wenene’s ‘Imiphanga’, writer Lidudumalingani remembers his mother connecting with the pain of others
Searching for justice in the war on womxn’s bodies
In a world defined by gendered violence, what can we do differently?
Editorial: Women still want their day
Viwe Dalingozi’s story, like many others, is painful to read and write about. But in court it simply drags on like any other case. As we have written so many times, this cannot…
Youth Day is just as much for the present as it is for the past
The spirit of defiance against injustice that was captured by the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 can still be felt among young people in post-apartheid South Africa
Death penalty won’t stop sexual violence
It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
The sabotage that wasn’t at the SABC
There is no evidence to support the broadcaster’s claim that its employees had co-ordinated a plan to botch the president’s speech
2019: The ones who left us
From Uyinene Mrwetyana, Oliver Mtukudzi to Xolani Gwala, Mail & Guardian remembers those who have passed on
What women want: Men to listen and speak out against violence
"Women do not have the power to stop rape. We cannot simply break our silence or act in certain ways to effect change."
Newspapers distort dean selection process
The articles ‘seek to impinge on the dignity of all the black women academics’ involved