Words by Nthabiseng Ditshweu As a queer woman and young leader, I have realised a gap in enriching queer people with Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) knowledge. For as far as we have been gravitating towards comprehensiv...
Words by Augustine Kumah. Adolescents face inter-related barriers that prevent them from accessing facility-based Reproductive Health (RH) services. These include: Individual barriers, such as feelings of shame, fear or...
Mzi Nduna, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand Rev Vusi Vilakati, Bethesda Methodist Church, Johannesburg There was no business as usual in the first week of September 2019 in South Africa. Governm...
Words by John Otieno It's been such a sad moment for our country Kenya and indeed the world as a whole in the past few days when the country woke-up to a heartbreaking news of a menstrual stigma-related death. The inci...
“Transforming education, a GBV perspective” Words by Rugare Shalom Zimunya Gender-based violence (GBV) refers to “any harm or suffering that is perpetrated against a woman or girl, man or boy and that has a negat...
By Patricia Humura Hike for the girl child At the start of every year, I look forward to something that will challenge me. I stock my energies to that particular thing or event and I just can't wait for it to happen...
I benefited a lot from the festival! On day 1 we started off the conference with a beautiful session, people breaking into groups and sharing on why they became a feminist, then after that each group presented all their st...
The recent judgement decriminalising same sex intercourse is a great milestone in human rights in Botswana. I am weary of including Africa because of the complexity of its diversity and the repressive nature of other juri...
Words by Dumisani M Dube, Dialogues for Change LGBTI+ refugees continue to suffer violence in South Africa. Coming out in certain part of Africa is a risk and is usually attached to being disowned by families and friends,...
By Dumiso Gatsha I remember sitting in a conference room at a venue close to OR Tambo International Airport in December 2018. Holiday vibes and closing off for year end were the main things in mind. I was trying to unde...