A new chapter was opened in the roles, activities and operational structure of the office of Nigeria’s first ladies, when the country returned to civil rule in 1999. Since the inauguration of the Better Life Programme for Rural Women (BLPRW), by late Mrs Maryam Babangida...
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Issues of gender and sexuality have been strongly debated in South Africa’s new democracy. From the National Women’s Coalition (NWC) in the early 1990s who influenced the progressive gender dimension of South Africa’s current Constitution to the protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s led by gay and lesbian activists. Still further, the Fees Must Fall movement in 2015 and 2016 put the issue of intersectionality square on the agenda for decolonising post-Apartheid society.
Yet, gender studies are still largely missing from university curricula and, in the realm of social policy, ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often and incorrectly conflated. The reporting of cases of femicide, intimate partner violence, and gender-based violence – which has sadly also affectedUJ students – have sparked public outrage and inspired numerous academic studies that attempt to understand how issues of patriarchy, heterosexism, and rape culture function and occur
RIP Sizani Ngubane: The cruel and lonely Covid-19 death of an exceptional woman
By Opinion
By Mary de Haas
Confirmation of the death of Sizani Ngubane, aged 74, on December 23, sent shock waves through her extensive South African and international networks of those who knew her dedication to, and unceasing work for, the rights of rural women through the Rural Womenâs Network.
However, when the announcement was made, she had been dead for days â perhaps even a week or more â having suffered a lonely, tormented Covid-19 death in her Hilton home.
Fingers are now being pointed at the provincial Department of Health and the local police for their failure to respond to the barrage of pleas from her son, Thulani, who had himself been hospitalised, seriously ill with Covid-19, to assist her.