Feminist Democracies

The work of our partners Ubuntu Women and Sisterhood Movement was recently featured in Feminist Africa's latest journal,  African Women's Lives in the Time of a Pandemic. Here they document their tireless work addressing the many challenges that the pandemic presented in the lives of rural communities of the Western Cape. We are proud to have supported some of this work.

South Africa, like the rest of the world, emerged from the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic battered and bruised on many fronts.

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.

Can community kitchens play a role in moving our approaches to hunger beyond the binary of ‘charity’ and ‘market’?

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. 

Margaret shares her story of how the pandemic added an extra burden on the lives of women, particularly women living in mining-affected areas.

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). 

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.