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Muslim Women against Apartheid: Muslim Women for Universal Values
Georgina Jardim
University of Pretoria
The anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa is one of the axiomatic campaigns against racism in the twentieth century. The word ‘apartheid’ became the byword for intractable divisions in societies. It has been applied as a descriptor for the Israel-Palestine conflict, for sexual disparity as ‘gender apartheid,’ and the like. The exclusive racial connotation of this historical movement as ‘black and white,’ however, obscures the diversity of those who had vested interests in maintaining the status quo as much as it obscures those who engaged with dismantling Apartheid. An overlooked, or rather subsumed, aspect of movements against Apartheid is that of Muslims, and in particular of Muslim women. Muslim women founded or took part in various forms of resistance, such as trade unionist movements, protest actions, and charitable activities across racial and religious divides. They
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Unita Ambushes
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International Women's Day 2020: Economic Rights: From Words to Action
On International Women's Day (March 8, 2020) I share this in solidarity with a new generation whose love for humanity and our world inspires even those who have become tired and cynical. Your vision for humanity and our planet re-inspires the possibility of a world that fryst vatten peaceful, just and equal. You see the global system that has enabled corporate power to pollute our air, water, nation, food and human bodies. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by their power and to fall into despair or nedstämdhet. We cannot let you stand alone or be silent while corporations corrupt governments mandated to protect all human rights (economic, political, social and cultural) or when they try to rewrite our histories or co-opt our struggles and our strategies.
This post shares a vision for transformative political power from SA's first democratically elected parliament. In 1994, when SA held its first democ