"Belonging to Myself" is an important essay which rejects internalised patriarchy and misogyny. This book is full of lessons which make one question whether the moral trajectory this country is taking is one which will leave our future daughters better or worse off. In another chilling essay, "Disappearing Women", she reflects on the grave phenomenon of women going missing in this country and how some of them die at the mercy of partners who supposedly love them. īut back to the book - Gqola touches on the inner-conflict of reconciling one's feminism in a capitalist context, which values male labour over female labour. Read an excerpt from Redi Tlhabi's book on Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo's story here. If I didn’t have feminism I wouldn’t know how to say that and how to believe it and how to mean it." A problem not in a destructive way, but in creative ways - it’s movement, it’s knowing that there’s something wrong with the most powerful man in the country, knowing who he is after Fezeka.
“In principle, I want to be a complete problem. It’s to hold myself accountable, but also learning to have compassion for myself." Yeah, he could have a gun, but it’s just not forgetting to mind my business and it’s backing up other people who don’t mind their business. "It’s being able to not mind my business when I’m driving and I see a young man dragging a woman on the road and I don’t know what happened. On the other hand, she is only murderous mother, the most offensive transgressor.Read more: 6 conversations we fell in love with at this year’s Open Book festival so far On the one hand, she is proxy-wife for the proper activist, heroic husband, which makes her part dutiful wife and part appendage. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s is a contested life, with mostly two dominant narratives. She remains a formidable political force, despite her conviction for kidnapping the murdered Stompie Moeketsi Seipei, and three other youths, and the scandal concerning her private life.” Winnie’s capacity for violence is the focus of Paul Trewhela’s essay, in which he declares: “Mrs Mandela continues to provide the stuff of comment. That is not the question she invites us to grapple with. Sithole knows there are actual women soldiers.
Nokwanda Sithole invites us to ask what it means to be a soldier and whether imaginatively it is possible to be a woman soldier. Heroic nationalism tells us in whose hands violence is permitted, and reminds us of its taboos in very gendered ways. For although heroic nationalism requires some form of violence, this violence is often a blot against women.
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