This op-Ed was written by our Founder Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge There is a fatal flaw in the proposed National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence and Femicide released by the government in May 2020. The flaw is the implied recommendation for the decriminalisation of “sex work”, which we prefer to call…...
Op-Ed: A Call for South Africa to pass the Equality Law now and END Gender Based Violence
This opinion article was written by our Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge for Sunday Independent, it was published on Sunday Independent on the 8th September 2019. That South Africa is a war zone for women and children is beyond question. Nothing could have driven this message home more effectively than the brutal murder…...
A survivors’ group: Do not offer sex work to us as a solution
This article was published on Times Select on the 10th June 2019. Mickey Meji is the leader of a prostitution survivor movement called Kwanele, which is supported by NGO Embrace Dignity. Unlike other forms of advocacy that seek to make the trade legal and regulated and remove the negative stigma…...
KWANELE survivor Thulisile Khoza writes an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphoza
Open letter written by KWANELE provincial mobilisation coordinator Thulisile Khoza Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa Hope all is well and you have rested well after the hard work of the elections and congratulations once again for retaining the power of governance. With all that said Mr President my name is Thulisile…...
KWANELE SURVIVOR MOVEMENT OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT
An open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding “decriminalisation of sex work” in South Africa Dear Mr. President, As women with first-hand experience of being prostituted in South Africa, we the movement of the survivors of the system of prostitution – predominantly poor black women from disadvantaged backgrounds –…...
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