Dec 22, 20211 minParusha's Cookbook: Least Effort, Most RewardMy 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, 20211 minSpeaking at a Women’s Month Dialogue hosted by the 1860 Heritage CentreOn 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, 20215 minFeminist Call to Action: Use your power to help create the world of our dreamsAs 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, 20217 minAmazon’s Liesbeek development: Preserving ‘the Place of the Stars’ from corporate plunderThis week the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoi Traditional Indigenous Council and Observatory Civic Association went to court to prevent the...
May 14, 20214 minObituary 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, 20216 minTowards feminist solidarity against corporate profit from apartheid vaccinesThis article was published in the Daily Maverick here. After the inception of International Women’s Day, the story was depoliticised,...
Aug 17, 20204 minRuth First Critical Communist and Feminist Ancestor. Assassinated on the 17 August 1982.
Apr 28, 20204 minThe Call of This Time: A meditation on life, death and revolutions of lovePregs Govender We all want freedom and peace – peace of mind and heart, in our relationships in our homes and workplaces, in our...
Mar 25, 20207 minHuman Rights Day Letter to President Ramaphosa: Overcoming Inequality will help us overcome Covid-19Published in Daily Maverick on 20 March 2020 On the eve of Human Rights Day, human rights activist Pregs Govender addresses President...
Mar 8, 20205 minInternational Women's Day 2020: Economic Rights: From Words to ActionOn 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, 20206 minMaking 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, 20196 minHeed Wangari Maathai's WisdomThe annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, 'COP25' is underway (2-13 December 2019). The science is clear - we have run...
Dec 2, 20196 minTime for Insubordinate Leadership25 November 2019 signalled the start of the 16 Days of Activism campaign against Gender-Based Violence. 10 December was International...