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Author and academic Pumla Dineo Gqola’s latest book Female Fear Factory is a sibling of her award-winning earlier book Rape: A South African Nightmare. Her feminist scholarship and thought have spotlighted slavery, artistic practice, and the prevalence of gender-based violence that is a scour...
Author and academic Pumla Dineo Gqola’s latest book Female Fear Factory is a sibling of her award-winning earlier book Rape: A South African Nightma
Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
By Sally Gandar• 27 April 2021 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - APRIL 26: protesters march to Parliament during the End Queer and Trans Hate Campaign on April 26, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. The march was in solidarity with the African LGBTQI+ victims and survivors of violence. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) Although the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill was introduced to Parliament in April 2018 and revived in October 2019, it has been ignored by MPs. The Department of Justice and Parliament must act now to pass the bill into law in order to protect some o...
Bodies pile up as the hate crimes bill gathers dust in Parliament [caption id="attachment_902998" align="alignleft" width="1763"] © Provided by Daily Maverick CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - APRIL 24: Anti-Gender Based Violence movement protest outside Parliament during a peaceful protest on April 24, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. Gender Based Violence remains a societal problem in South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)[/caption] On 27 April 2021, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day, commemorating its first democratic elections held in 1994. Those elections marked a day of hope f...