Our Freedoms Have Multiple Truths Article Freedom is not absolute in South Africa and never will be. In fact, the notion of absolute freedom, while it sounds good to say, is an absurd fallacy. By Ling Sheperd
A Feminist View of the 2021 Local Government Election Manifestos With this project we considered the three biggest and one newly formed small political parties’ manifestos and hope to provide information to the public on the extent to which parties respond to an intersectional feminist agenda pdf
Transforming Cape Town’s COVID Soup Kitchens Into Spaces of Dignity – A Community Vision Article Can community kitchens play a role in moving our approaches to hunger beyond the binary of ‘charity’ and ‘market’? By Sanelisiwe Nyaba , Haidee Swanby and Stefanie Lemke
The climate crisis is a result of the commodification of land and social relations Interview The climate crisis is the result of relations of power and exploitation, between the Global North and the Global South as well as between people and nature. A decolonial approach in climate activism stands for a radical break with colonial principles of economic, political and social systems – including industrial agriculture and landgrabbing. A conversation with Ruth Nyambura, climate activist from Kenya. By Imeh Ituen
The Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Mining Affected Communities Margaret shares her story of how the pandemic added an extra burden on the lives of women, particularly women living in mining-affected areas.
Queer community in South Africa - "I am feminism!" Interview The Africa Division at our Head Office recently engaged with group of "loud and proud" Queer feminist activists and writers from South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya on their motivation and inspiration for their feminist activist work on gender and sexual identity. A series of published interviews have since followed. Read here a conversation had with South African activist Seoketsi Mooketsi (Seopowerr). By Claudia Simons
SA’s coronavirus recovery plan should consider value of women’s ‘invisible’ work The South African government still needs to drawing up a just transition plan that will support workers who are likely to lose their jobs as the country moves its economy away from dependence on carbon-emitting production, such as mining and downstream industries. By Leonie Joubert
The Shops Are Burning, The Women Are Burning, The Climate is Burning: Connecting The Dots Analysis Just a few months ago, two cyclones (Kenneth and Idai) destroyed the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in parts of southern Africa. The cyclones, along with widespread drought, forced desperate people to migrate. But links between migrancy and xenophobia, violence against women and the growing climate crisis across southern Africa and well beyond have been largely neglected.
We need a civic and feminist movement in the country Interview The black lesbian human rights activist and activist Funeka Soldaat talks about the situation of the LGBTIQ community in South Africa 25 years after the end of apartheid.
South Africa's Political Parties Through a Feminist Lens Partner Analysis Using an intersectional feminist framework, the Women and Democracy Initiative (WDI) analysed both the manifestos and track records of the country's three leading parties, alongside that of Women Forward (WF), a small women-led party contesting the elections for the second time. The analysis considers not only what these parties say on issues commonly labeled as ‘women’s', but also applies a feminist lens to the parties approaches to unemployment, wages, land and home ownership, social security, education and health. Grandstanding on gender during elections is the norm, with parties often taking the over-promise and underdeliver route. This analysis can serve as a feminist barometer on how parties act on these promises after elections. By Women and Democracy Initiative, Dullah Omar Institute
