Gender & Minorities

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is changing the ways we connect with each other, with information, and with the world, especially in terms of using the Internet.

Introduction

If you happen to be African, a woman, Palestinian in Israel, or belong to a group that is routinely subjected to prejudice by a dominant population, you can usually spot bigotry the moment it shows its grotesque countenance.  But, what if said bigotry is of the insidious variety – when

At the occasion of the International Women’s Day last year, I wrote about sexual harassment at the workplace, in a piece which drew much inspiration from Reason Wafawarova’s legendary piece entitled “Discrediting women oppression fallacious”, which appeared in The Herald some eight year

A cursory re-examination of the early years of what became known as the women’s suffrage movement and abolitionism represented the embryonic phases of self-organisation and mass struggle politics within United States society.

Since the mid-19th century there has been a periodic interrelationship between the movements for African emancipation and women’s liberation.

There are four women who respectively work in the retail industry, the health sector and the education sector.  Only two of the women drawn into this conversation have met physically.

The historical record in so far as Africa is concerned shows that women have not only enjoyed respect, but also they have been formidable leaders.

​This worrisome declaration by the Johane Masowe Apostolic sect came in the wake of their blasphemous proclamation that Mnangagwa had been anointed by Jehovah God to win the forthcoming elections, and that if he was to stay in power, he should never allow a woman to take the rein

The bill proposed by the Council of Ministers in March 2014, and rejected a week later by the parliament due to condemnation of the international community, is a very good example of the hostility towards LGBTQ people in this second most populous African nation.