Women

An interview with Gertrude Shope, a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee and head of the ANC Women’s Section Learn and Teach: Welcome home Ma-Shope! How do you feel to be [...]

What is it like to live in a women’s hostel? Ma Ambe Maseko tells us… “Life here in the hostel is terrible. We only live here because we have nowhere else to go,” says Ma [...]

A manager of a great British soccer club once said: “A soccer match isn’t a matter of life or death… it’s much more than that!” That’s how it is with soccer. [...]

They came from all walks of life to the festival in the Flower Hall at Wits University, to celebrate National Women’s Day. Amanda Kwadi was the chairperson of the day. She is an official of [...]

Mary wears glasses — but they are badly broken. Her one leg has a very strange shape, and she limps. The leg has scars from beatings. Who was it who broke Mary’s glasses and hurt her leg? [...]

They came, singing and clapping, from all over South Africa — and together they made history. It was the first time that the women of Cosatu came together to talk about their problems — and what [...]

From June 1986 to June 1987, during the first year of the state of emergency, there were at least 3050 women in detention. Over one third of these detainees were aged 18 years or younger. There [...]

Early one Sunday morning last month, while most of you were still in dreamland, we crawled out of bed and made our way to Mathopestad, in the western Transvaal. Women from many different places [...]

This article is about contraception, or family planning. It is about all the different kinds of contraception, for both men and women. We know that many people feel shy to talk about [...]

Every morning women get up early, make food, clean and do the washing – all before they go to work. And when women leave home, they leave worried. They worry about their children – [...]