It was Saturday, August 10, 2024, a day that will forever be etched in my memory. It was the day I experienced the power of being famous, if only for five minutes. I remember a message was posted on our Wosso Fellow WhatsApp group by our Mentor Thabetha on the 29th of July asking if […]
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Harare, 16 August: Southern African women’s rights defenders are calling on heads of state meeting here on SADC Day, 17 August, to fulfil their commitments to the rights of women in all their diversity. “Tomorrow marks the sixteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development,” noted Emma
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Harare 9 August: Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO) fellows from Southern Africa make their debut on South African Women’s Day at the start of a packed programme in the wings of the SADC Heads of State Summit. “We are super excited to announce and onboard the 14 young women activists from six countries in Southern
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I have been on different platforms where i get to be introduced as “advocate” and people automatically conclude that i am a legal person by profession. Well i enjoy this at times because i get to earn some respect that’s accorded these kind of professionals. To set the record straight, the title came about as
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Johannesburg, 31 May: As election results from the 2024 South African elections pour in, Gender Links (GL) predicts a drop in women’s representation in the national assembly of between three and five percentage points. The result would be South Africa dropping from its current twelfth place in the global ranking of women’s political participation (WPP)
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