Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:53 — 16.3MB) For heterosexual women, lesbians and gay men in South Africa; the subject of men as perpetrators of violence permeates our everyday lives. In response, we express outrage at headline-grabbing instances of brutality; and we mobilize public demonstrations to convey our support both for survivors and victims of violent crimes. Yet tacit acceptance of male violence continuously...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:21 — 10.4MB) This podcast comes at a time when a National Health Insurance Policy has been proposed by the state amid the failure of health service delivery to meet demands placed on it. Our country’s women carry a very high burden of disease testified by the relentless rise in the rate of maternal mortality (and the probable failure of South Africa to meet the Millennium Development...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:16 — 10.0MB) This podcast examines the state of feminism in Africa today. It is contextualised by American political activist, scholar and author Angela Davis. Davis reflects on the 1985 Women’s Conference which took place in Nairobi, Kenya. The podcast contains the reflections of Zacki Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign,  Nina Benjamin of the Labour Research Service...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:10 — 8.4MB) While South Africa is still staggering under the backlog arising from the many decades of the engineered structural inequality of apartheid, water scarcity in working-class urban and rural households still remains a critical issue. In this podcast, former Chairperson of the Gender and Water Alliance, Ethne Davey, illustrates that inadequate access to water is not gender...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:42 — 17.4MB) This special issue of Agenda seeks to explore the gendered dynamics of contemporary marital relationships. In the context of major social and sexual transformations, we are interested in how men and women relate, experience and navigate intimate life, sex, economic subsistence and reproduction. In trying to liberate the marriage institution from its patriarchal content and...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:55 — 16.4MB) Injustice against women is probably no more clearly demonstrated than in the laws of a country and in their interpretation and implementation by the justice system. We do not have to think back very far to recall how we fought a long struggle to replace the sexist and racist laws of apartheid with a new Constitution which has at its heart a Bill of Rights in which the...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:45 — 7.4MB) Poverty is gendered and calls for gendered solutions. In this podcast, we speak to Mercia Andrews of Trust for Community Outreach and Education. TCOE is a national organisation that operates mainly in the rural areas of South Africa. We also hear from Sarah Claasen, president of Sikhula Sonke, a women led trade union which operates as a social movement dealing with all...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:14 — 7.4MB) In sub-Saharan Africa, women produce 80-90 percent of the food. They have little access to credit which limits their ability to purchase seeds, fertilizers and other inputs needed to adopt new farming techniques. In this podcast, we hear from Herschelle Milford who is the director of Surplus People Project. SPP advocates for pro poor agrarian reform and food...
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Agenda Feminist Media is committed to giving women a forum, a voice and skills to articulate their needs and interests towards transforming unequal gender relations. We aim to question and challenge current understandings and practices of gender relations.
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We have been at the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for the past 25 years. Through our flagship project, the Agenda journal, we raise debate around women’s rights and gender issues. The journal is IBSS/SAPSE accredited and peer reviewed.Â
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