I live in Cape Town and I work with the Women’s Funds and Community Foundations in Southern Africa. I am a Board member in the interim for AWDF and also a board member for the Southern Africa Community Grantmakers forum, WINGS and Women’s Net. My role is to work with the Women’s Funds on sustainability […]
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Sally Jean Shackleton
I live and work in Cape Town, South Africa, and I work in South Africa. My work has a focus on media, communications and using information and communication technologies as a tool to raise voices for change. I work with sex workers, transgender people, gender activists and feminists. I am currently working with the Sex […]
Janine Moolman
I live in Johannesburg, South Africa, while I work internationally in Africa, Asia and Latin America. I coordinate a global project on violence against women and information and communications technologies. This involves managing research, policy advocacy, training and capacity building and providing guidance and supervision to country coordinators. I also train women and communities in […]
Revai Makanje-Aalbaek
I am a Zimbabwean feminist currently living in South Africa. I call myself a feminist because I believe in the equality of all humans and especially equality of the sexes. I have devoted most of my professional and personal life to the fight against the oppression of women. The main way to achieve the liberation […]
Yaliwe Clarke
I currently work at the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town. My work entails both teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses about gender justice in various African contexts and issues. In addition to this, as a board member, I contribute to the work of Isis Women’s Cross Cultural Exchange […]
Shamillah Wilson
Shamillah is a Consultant. She served as the Young Women and Leadership Programme Manager for the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) from 2001-2006. Shamillah is a founding Board Member of the Youth Against AIDS Network, a regional network of youth leaders in Africa and acts as a member of the Advisory Council for […]
Charlotte Maxeke
Charlotte Manye Maxeke is known as the first black woman from South Africa to hold a graduate degree, and for her exceptional contribution to the struggle for women’s and workers’ rights, and her lifelong dedication to the struggle for peace and justice. Maxeke was an individual whose every action was expressive of her extraordinary intellect, […]
South African Women Protest Pass Laws
In one of the largest demonstrations staged in South African history, twenty thousand women of all races marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the compulsory carrying of passes by African (black) women. This march was significant for its multi-racial mobilization and the direct challenge it presented to the apartheid […]
sistahood
sistahood by Bernedette Muthien i wanted to offer you raw liver from my side but instead will share with you the vegetarian delight of storing sunlight in my soul radiating energy that draws moths to flame white hot air propels a plane through spirals of time where deadlines is not an oxymoron how cosmetic on few […]
Messages, Poems & Prayers of Solidarity with Women Human Rights Defenders, from Southern African feminists and activists
Messages, Poems & Prayers of Solidarity with Women Human Rights Defenders, from Southern African feminists and activists Just Associates Southern Africa (JASS SNA) & friends of JASS came together to express our solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Egypt as well as women human rights defenders standing for rights across the African continent and […]