Opinion Pieces
13th December 2020
Our home and our mother: The gendering of nature in climate change discourses By Tinashe Mawere, Henri-Count Evans & Rosemary Musvipwa Introduction: Re/thinking climate change Gendered scripts, […]
1st December 2020
What AIDS epidemic? – a World AIDS Day message from the CSA&G Next year it will be forty years since the first stories of a new […]
6th November 2020
Fighting for Pure Lands: Land Purity, Polluting Figures, Male Power and Violence in Zimbabwe by Tinashe Mawere Introduction: Contextualizing the Zimbabwean land question In Zimbabwe, land […]
29th September 2020
My Body and Me: Personal Reflections on the Idea of “Violence” From a Queer[1] South African Woman by GS Pinheiro *Please note, this essay contains descriptions […]
23rd September 2020
Am I eligible to be a refugee? by Hulisani Khorombi The United Nations Refugee Agency defines a refugee as someone who has been forced to […]
21st September 2020
Female Genital Mutilation: sacred cultural practice or human rights violation? By Hulisani Khorombi Background The World Health Organisation estimates that 3 million girls, residing in only […]
1st September 2020
A bitter makoti by Belinda Pakati A large body of women simply abandoned the notion of sisterhood. Individual women who had once critiqued and challenged patriarchy […]
17th August 2020
(Un)masking other dangerous pandemics within the Covid-19 lockdown By Tinashe Mawere Introduction: Silencing ‘disobedient’ voices On 13 May 2020, some youths from Zimbabwe’s largest opposition party, […]
17th August 2020
Powerful in Pink: The corporatisation and commodification of ‘women’s empowerment’ By Elize Soer South Africans commemorate Women’s Month in August to pay tribute to the 20 […]
11th August 2020
CSA&G Statement on Gender and #ZimbabweanLivesMatter On 24 July the UN’s human rights office, the OHCHR, expressed concern over reports of [Zimbabwean] “police using force to […]
