Monthly Archives: August 2013

Nomboniso Gasa on patriarchy in history and SA today

Rebecca Davis, Zille continues to bat for Motshekga against education activists

The article shows how DA leader Helen Zille disagrees with attempts to force the Basic Education Minister to provide basic infrastructure creating an environment for education. Instead she, and Jonathan Jansen, VC of The University of the Free State argue that this is misplaced where quality teaching is absent and this, in the view of Jansen should be related to other routes to economic advancement more lucrative than teaching.. Davis shows that the provision of toilets, buildings etc are not seen as a total answer to the problem of education but that these are a crucial element of what is required for an adequate learning environment.

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-08-06-analysis-zille-continues-to-bat-for-motshekga-against-education-activists/#.UgCqnhbH0y5

Mandisi Majavu, Vavi: Discursive Tension Stifles Rape Discussion

Another take on the alleged rape  or ‘consensual’ sex engaged in by Zwelinzima Vavi in COSATU HQ. While I think the writer brings some insights that have not been in the debate, the power relationship seems somehow to be lost in the various discourses that the writer examines. While ‘discursive tension’ may stifle debate, without detracting from what the contribution reveals, does it open that debate on Vavi’s actions, any further than it has been up till now?

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1746

Nomboniso Gasa, Complex legacy of 1913 land act

http://www.dispatch.co.za/insight-complex-legacy-of-1913-land-act-held-captive/

Chase Madar, The trials of Bradley Manning

http://portside.org/2013-08-02/trials-bradley-manning

Athambile Masola, What if Marriage wasn’t anti-feminism?

http://feministssa.com/2013/07/15/what-if-marriage-wasnt-anti-feminism/

Jen Thorpe, How you can tell when someone is a real rape survivor

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/jenniferthorpe/2013/07/30/how-you-can-tell-when-someone-is-a-real-rape-survivor/

Athambile Masola, Women’s bodies are not fodder for power games

Women’s bodies are not fodder for power games

T O Molefe, Hello rape culture, hello ignorance

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/tomolefe/2013/07/31/hello-rape-culture-hello-ignorance/

Raymond Suttner, Power and sexual encounters in the work place

The recent rape allegations against Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretaty of COSATU has led to a range of arguments, which obscure the character of the sexual encounter, Continue reading →

Sisonke Msimang, Who killed Pinky Mosiane?

This article demonstrates how the regulations stipulating that women be employed underground in the mines, is not supported by measures  to protect them from sexual abuse. The murder of Pinky Mosiane has not been properly investigated nor has Anglo American or the National Union of Mineworkers taken firm steps to see that justice is done.  While women working underground are especially vulnerable it is part of an overall situation where most women report sexual harassment at the workplace in South Africa

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-08-01-who-killed-pinky-mosiane/#.UfniGY03ByU