This journal highlights that culture is superimposed on many aspects that deal with women's rights, even in contexts that one would not expect the culture discourse to be prominent in. Contributors unanimously raise attitudes towards women and girls as being a grave concern, and we debate culture with relation to gender and inequality.

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EDITORIAL:
Thenjiwe Magwaza

EDITORIAL:
Kristin Palitza

POETRY:
The masquerade dance.
Charity Angya

FOCUS:
A battle won? The prohibition of virginity testing in the Children's Bill.
Fiona Scorgie

POETRY:
Because I am a woman.
Batsirai Easther Chigama

 

FOCUS:
Critiquing the male writing of female izibongo: a feminist approach.
Nompumelelo Zondi

POETRY:
Ode to the kitchen unit.
Caroline Esterhuizen

 

INBRIEFS:
Arthi Sanpath

FOCUS:
Revisiting choice: gender, culture and privatised health care in Uganda.
Sarah N Ssali

BRIEFING:
"Even with the best intentions":The misreading of Sarah Baartman's life by African America writers.
Natasha Maria Gordon-Chipembere

POETRY:
Thoroughbred Bastard's Life.
Bernedette Muthien

FOCUS:
"Lobola is here to stay": rural black women and the contradictory meanings of lobolo in post-apartheid South Africa.
Janet Hinson Shope

BRIEFING:
Rethinking Culture in the face of HIV/AIDS in East Africa.
Lydia Mugambe

POETRY:
My Mother is.
Tseliso Masolane

 

FOCUS:
Male trouble: independent women and male dependency in a white
working-class suburb of Pretoria.
Johan Smuts

ARTICLE:
Culture production of the educated person: a case study of a rural co-educational high school in the Eastern Cape.
Nolutho Ndengane Diko

ARTICLE:
Young "women of Phokeng": strategies for survival in contemporary South Africa.
Sara Compion and Susan E Cook

ART ESSAY:
Celebrating the spirit.
Gabisile Nkosi

ARTICLE:
African women, resistance cultures and cultural resistances.
M Bahati Kuumba

BRIEFING:
Gender and cross cultural dynamics in Ethiopia.
Konjit Kifetew

POETRY:
Suburbia in Autumn.
Lliane Loots

 

OBITUARY:
Strinivase 'Strini' Moodley

 

WRITING PROGRAMME UPDATES:
Aso Balan



Colleen Louw

 

Pamphilia Hlapa

 

Bulelwa Magudu