ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, centre, and his deputy, Paul Mashatile, right, help cut the cake at the party’s 112th anniversary celebration at Mbombela Stadium, Mpumalanga.
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The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
Brides attend a mass wedding ceremony at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, south of Johannesburg.
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The Marriage Bill should strike a balance between preserving non-discriminatory cultural and religious practices and promoting liberal values.
Women are severely underrepresented in editorial leadership and in news coverage.
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The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
Frene Ginwala addressing the media in 2017, tireless in her fight for justice.
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A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
Women in rural areas have limited access to the internet.
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Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
Mary Kay Ash’s legendary love for the color pink symbolized her determination to be a business success by “thinking like a woman.”
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Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.
Detail of the cover of the new book featuring art by Norman Catherine.
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This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe died in 2019.
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Moore did not unearth any treasures in his research of Mugabe’s legacy. He has not even drawn a map that might lead us to them.
Thousands of activists protest outside the South African parliament in Cape Town, following a week of brutal murders of young women in 2019.
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The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
Rape and other forms of violence in and around schools reflect a broader problem in the country.
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At the heart of the issue for school children, parents, caregivers and teachers is to confront from a very young age the question of sex, sexuality and gender.
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Prince Andrew has been described as the “black sheep” of the royal family, but his alleged behaviour is part of the monarchy’s long history of dismissing women.
People protesting the gang rape and killing of a woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, hold onto each other as policemen try to detain them in New Delhi, India, in September 2020. The gang rape of the woman from the lowest rung of India’s caste system sparked outrage across the country.
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Because of its extreme violence, the Hathras rape sent shock waves throughout India: it is a disturbing reminder of the normalization of rape culture there and should be seen as a call to action.
The disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on the productivity of women could see many leave academia.
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Increased pressure on women academics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying the fractured landscape of gender parity in academia.
Women spend considerable time finding water for their homes.
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The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.
Women’s agency is still mired within wider structures of patriarchy and chronic poverty.
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Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.
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In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Ronald Jackson sells dried fish on the roadside in Mangochi, Malawi.
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Nutrition policies offer the chance for us to think differently about men and women’s roles in society.
Protesters march against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.
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Underlying direct or personal violence is structural violence that is entrenched in unequal power relations in society.
Purity Malinga, the new Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
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Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed Presiding Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in over 200 years.
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The South African child support grant is progressive in its gender-neutrality, yet men make up only 2% of those who collect it.