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Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… and Speak . She co-authored a chapter on South African Feminism for the book, The Challenge of Local Feminisms: …
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… feminist and author of a groundbreaking book, Feminism and Materialism , which, has recently been …
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
… part in social gatherings. She started reading books about feminism and slowly became conscientised to the sexism that …
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… societal issues from race, identity and love to reformist-feminism. Reformist-feminism criticizes the individualistic and systematic, … with discriminatory…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… to actively confront inequality. While she did not study feminism, her experiences and that of her fellow women …
ArchiveLiberation: a feminist issue?
ArchiveJesus was a Feminist
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… From the mid-1970s to the 1980s, she immersed herself in feminism, socialism, as well as solidarity in community, …
ArchiveFreedom in bondage: Black feminist hermeneutics
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
Diana E.H. Russell was born in Cape Town on 6 November 1938. Her mother was British and her father South African. After completing her bachelors degree at the…
ArchiveYes! I Am A Feminist! By SPEAK, July 1992, Johannesburg
ArchiveThe emergence of black feminist theology in South Africa
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
South African author Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner is born to Gottlob and Rebecca (Rebekah) Schreiner. During her youth she lived in Cradock in the Eastern…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… International feminism was a catalyst for South African feminist … 1989). As was largely the case internationally, radical feminism became the core…
ArchiveFemale Consciousness and Feminism in Africa by Allison Drew
… Female Consciousness and Feminism in Africa by Allison Drew …
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the Cape Province (now…
BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached to a law firm and…
BiographyBerni Searle
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her …
BiographyMabel Palmer
Dr Mabel Palmer (nee Mabel Atkinson) was born on 22 May 1876 near Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyFeroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High School. While…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…
BiographyBuchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the Nigerian city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice …
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… lectures, and she constantly denied it. The definition of feminism according to Western audiences - in her eyes - was different than what feminism meant to…
ArchiveWomen in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner
… relates to how one theorises the relationship between feminism and national liberation, in particular whether there is on feminism or whether we are speaking…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… mother was the first female registrar of the institution (Feminism Is Fashionable For Nigerian Writer Chimamanda Ngozi … [2016, January 6].|Feminism Is…