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Winefride4women
This is a contribution to the #Winefride4women campaign. Please support us by donating or sharing our campaign with all that you know. https://chuffed.org/project/winefride4women We asked some of our friends and network to share their thoughts on women’s independence and power. Thank you to the inimitable Valerie Hunter for this piece. What is your name and how…
Donations among oceans
Donations among oceans The monied At land tick a box to be told stories, Southern flickers of a currency current Canary sung. South to North money courses, Can the currency current turn? For extraction and how it now flows is osmosis inverse and impossible. Seas of pleas of charities will build a golden…
Independence towards interdependence
By Jane Burt This is a contribution to the #Winefride4women campaign. Please support us by donating or sharing our campaign with all that you know. https://chuffed.org/project/winefride4women Last year I walked the St Winefride’s Sacred Well pilgrimage alone and communed with the rocks, trees and mountains. This year, Stella Horgan joined me, and we learnt to…
Independence, Sekwanele style
This post is part of our current fundraising campaign, which started with a pilgrimage walk to St Winefride’s holy well in Wales. I am Stella Horgan, artist, Director and team member of Zingela Ulwazi Trust, member of realife and facilitator of transformational processes. Little did I know that a conversation that took place on…
Embracing and defending a woman’s vulnerability
By Quentan Marule, 13th July, 2021 Looking at the history of women in my lineage, I have come to realise that women are not given the platform to be fragile and sensitive. They don’t need permission from anyone but culture has taught us to conduct ourselves in a certain way. We are often ruled by…
World Water and Earth Days’ celebrations.
World Water and Earth Days’ celebrations. By December Ndhlovu Why do we celebrate Earth Day? Global Earth Day has been celebrated on the 22nd April every year for over 50 years now. It is celebrated as a conscious reminder that the Earth or Planet Earth is badly damaged and that we care about it as…
Meeting with the Traditional Authority, the core power and point of this village
By Sekwanele, 1st April, 2021 In South Africa, the Traditional Authority is the backbone of many communities. It arranges the law and makes sure that community members abide by it. They play a huge role in refining tradition, which includes the culture that denotes and distinguishes the males and the females according to their sexes.…
Food forest gardens provide more just food security.
By December Ndhlovu A Food Forest is a forest made of edible fruits, vegetables and herbs. A food forest garden is a forest of different types of edible crops and plants that are planted together in a cluster, depicting a forest. During the COVID-19 outbreak we have learned a lot as a people of this…
The Birth of Sekwanele, or, OWN THE CROWN
By Quentan Marule (25th February 2021) Sekwanele is an isiXhosa word meaning “its enough”. It has a profound meaning for women in our country. Women who have been voiceless for far too long, those whose vulnerability has left them with enough trauma to last a lifetime. Abusers have been oppressing women for way too long.…
Water access is a Constitutional Right
Water access is a Constitutional Right, By December Ndhlovu Water access and rights is a very broad concept to discuss in an article. I will therefore limit my discussion to the following questions: Where does our water come from? There could be lot of surprises if one can ask the youth of today as to…