International Women's Day 2023
Today I honour feminist ancestors who fought for women’s rights by sharing a video clip from my tribute to Cde Frene Ginwala at...
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Love, Courage & Insubordination
The Official Website of Pregs Govender, Author and Feminist
Creating community & solidarity through writing
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Invoking the power of love & courage to be insubordinate to injustice
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- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
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,...
- Aug 24, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- Aug 9, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Aug 6, 2021
- 7 min
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...
- May 14, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Mar 8, 2021
- 6 min
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,...
- Aug 17, 2020
- 4 min
Ruth First
Critical Communist and Feminist Ancestor. Assassinated on the 17 August 1982.
- Apr 29, 2020
- 4 min
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...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 7 min
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...
- Mar 8, 2020
- 5 min
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...
- Feb 10, 2020
- 6 min
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...
- Dec 5, 2019
- 6 min
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...
- Dec 2, 2019
- 6 min
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...
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