How Jacob Zuma Revitalized Feminism in South Africa

Hassim, Shireen

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“…The violence entailed throwing the woman on the bonnet of a car, slapping her, pouring beer on her face, hitting the woman's aunt, and also hitting her in the face. In 2007, a very high-ranking South African politician was accused of raping a young woman (Hassim, 2023;Gqola, 2007). However, due to manipulations around the case, it was thrown out of court, but the allegations were factual in the eyes of observers.…”

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Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Seeletse

2023

INSPIRA: Indonesian J. Psy. Res.

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This study was requested by victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV), who wanted their voices to be heard. They were not interested in their identities being revealed, but they only wanted to share their stories to expose some rot by high-profile people. This paper sought to explore the meanings that these victims attach to the experiences of GBV and IPV in cases where perpetrators are well-to-do, highly respected persons occupying positions of authority in recognized establishments. Six (6) IPV victims, selected using the purposive sampling method, participated in the study. They were interviewed, and their text data was analyzed. The results show that some high-status people perpetrate GBV and IPV, covering the known types of IPV and generating two new ones of IPV extending to the victim’s family and threats to divorce their victim. The paper recommends monitoring and evaluating high-status people and also bars GBV and IPV perpetrators from practicing in high-profile trades.

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Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Seeletse

2023

INSPIRA: Indonesian J. Psy. Res.

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African feminist activism and democracy: Social media publics and Zimbabwean women in politics online

Chikafa-Chipiro

2023

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“We need to begin our questioning, activism and theorising from the spaces from which we are dying,” Funmi Olonisakin. The political landscape in Zimbabwe is largely a post-colonial hetero-patriarchal domain that pushes women politicians to the border of politics. Constraints in civic engagement and political participation that is characteristic of a shrinking democracy and exclusionary public sphere subsist. The 2023 election and its campaign period has shown that the socio-economic and political landscape is unpredictable with serious threats to women’s participation in politics. The lives of Zimbabwean women in politics are continually subjected to multiple forms of violence online and offline. Meanwhile, African feminist activism in the country has seemingly taken several steps back. Zimbabwean feminist activists risk being co-opted into the hetero-patriarchal socio-political structures. There is evidence of a considerable disconnect between feminist/gender activists and women in politics that needs to be addressed. In Senegal and South Africa among other countries, protests by younger generations of feminists have addressed this divide through innovations in protest strategies resulting in the re-formation of radical politics (Dieng, 2023; Hassim, 2023). With social media at the disposal of the younger generation of women politicians the movement is set on a revolutionary trajectory. The sustained social media presence of the new crop of women politicians has created active intimate and counter-publics who engage in vital Zimbabwean political dialogue. The new crop of women politicians referred to here are younger women politicians who unlike their predecessors are very active on social media and have no liberation war experience. The study locates social media as a provenance for Zimbabwean feminist activist revolutionising and democracy initiatives. Theoretically, I posit that the contentions around women’s political participation and violations against Zimbabwean women in politics are revealing of intricacies in African feminism and the coloniality of gender and how these, together with theories of the public sphere can further feminist activism. The study will utilise online ethnography of purposively selected Facebook posts and Tweets by Zimbabwean women in politics, feminist activists and/or gender organisations.

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How Jacob Zuma Revitalized Feminism in South Africa

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

African feminist activism and democracy: Social media publics and Zimbabwean women in politics online

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