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The Power of Love - how to connect, draw courage and be insubordinate to injustice

South African Women’s Day marks the anniversary of when 20,000 women marched against the apartheid government’s passbook laws, on 9...

Parusha's Cookbook: Least Effort, Most Reward

My daughter’s gift of love lifted my heart and I wanted to share it with you. Parusha Naidoo’s digital Afro-Asian plant-based cookbook,...

Speaking at a Women’s Month Dialogue hosted by the 1860 Heritage Centre

On Saturday the 21st of August, I addressed women's rights and GBV in the context of state and corporate power, inequality, poverty and...

Feminist Call to Action: Use your power to help create the world of our dreams

As a collective of feminists who urgently convened to respond to the social unrest of July 2021, we were aware that those who were poor...

Amazon’s Liesbeek development: Preserving ‘the Place of the Stars’ from corporate plunder

This week the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoi Traditional Indigenous Council and Observatory Civic Association went to court to prevent the...

Obituary for my father, Ronnie Govender

This originally appeared in the Sunday Times and Daily Maverick. Dad, you played with life in the theatre of this world. You woke before...

Towards feminist solidarity against corporate profit from apartheid vaccines

This article was published in the Daily Maverick here. After the inception of International Women’s Day, the story was depoliticised,...

Ruth First

Critical Communist and Feminist Ancestor. Assassinated on the 17 August 1982.

The Call of This Time: A meditation on life, death and revolutions of love

Pregs Govender We all want freedom and peace – peace of mind and heart, in our relationships in our homes and workplaces, in our...

Human Rights Day Letter to President Ramaphosa: Overcoming Inequality will help us overcome Covid-19

Published in Daily Maverick on 20 March 2020 On the eve of Human Rights Day, human rights activist Pregs Govender addresses President...

International Women's Day 2020: Economic Rights: From Words to Action

On International Women's Day (March 8, 2020) I share this in solidarity with a new generation whose love for humanity and our world...

Making Women's Lives Visible in Public Policy

In 2020, a quarter of a century after the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), capitalism, war and the...

Heed Wangari Maathai's Wisdom

The annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, 'COP25' is underway (2-13 December 2019). The science is clear - we have run...

Time for Insubordinate Leadership

25 November 2019 signalled the start of the 16 Days of Activism campaign against Gender-Based Violence. 10 December was International...