“Gender activists are calling for harsh sentences for gender-based violence perpetrators, following a number of incidents in the past few weeks. Gender-Based Violence victims were laid to rest in various parts of the country today. We joined by Advocate Brenda Madumise-Pajibo, the director of Women's empower organisation, Wise 4 Afrika.” - SABC News
Read MoreThe new kid on the block, Women’s Economic Assembly (WECONA) is billed as a high-level Presidential dialogue on women in the supply chain and the CEO of the country will deliver a keynote address. The dialogue takes place against the backdrop of a staggering unemployment rate amongst black women, and the covid 19 pandemic that has magnified all the existing inequalities living not just through a health crisis but an economic one too.
Read MoreIn 2021, Robert Kelly was found guilty for his crimes and faces life in prison. What a vindicating moment. I remember being the only kid in school who knew not to sing his music. I remember my mother changing the radio station as soon as his music played. I remember my father’s shame whenever he found an R Kelly song in his playlist after having missed it when he was working on updating them. I remember the reactions to Surviving R Kelly. I remember it all, and this conviction is only a step in the right direction, but for all of the naysayers, Robert Kelly was found guilty - do you believe us now?
Read MoreIn December of 2019, we ventured out on a roadtrip to Mafikeng in the North West Province where we were to meet with teenage mothers who had agreed to share their stories with us. The interest to meet with these girls, whose identity we will keep anonymous here, was sparked by a number of schools reporting high rates of girls being pregnant in what seemed to be within a simultaneous timeframe. More specifically, it was the Parliamentary session where Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, was questioned about the number of pregnant school girls and she reported that 121,099 girls ages 10 to 19 had fallen pregnant within a 12-month period. Below is the breakdown by province and age categories of 10 to 14 years as well as those 15 to 19 years.
Read MoreThe sun has finally set on the time where we quietly sweep things under the rug. It has set on the time where we look away in the name of “minding our own business”. A new dawn is on the horizon, and it’s demanding change. For far too long we’ve allowed history to continually repeat itself. Men, with power, influence and money getting away with abuse and violence. For too long we’ve lived in a world broken by brutally powerful men. Times up. This past week recordings of Mohale Motaung have been circulating the internet. The tapes are brutally honest and difficult to hear. In the recordings, we hear Mohale detail his experience of 3+ years of abuse, suffered at the hands of his now estranged husband, Somizi Mhlongo.
Read MoreAs a black woman, the eve gene carriers, the oppressed of the oppressed, it’s time to start saying “Nah’. Nothing offends, outrages, and disrupts whiteness and patriarchy like a black woman saying no, excusing herself from that which doesn’t serve her, or simply speaking up for herself. It’s perfectly alright to say, “Nah.”
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