September, 2019

• 25 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Nicola

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Nicola Lazenby | Artist This is my exhibition of my new collection of artworks, called “Lulama”, which means wolf woman, and the reason I started creating this work was because I came back from a four-month pilgrimage, walking in the wild. I was doing a section of ...

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• 24 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Gillian

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Gillian Parenzee | Mother | Teacher | Organic Grower | Ethical Entrepreneur I’m a single mom. I homeschooled my child from a young age because he didn’t fit into a system. Having to go through the system was slowly destroying my boy. My homeschooling journey also was ...

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• 24 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Bulelwa

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Bulelwa Fesi | Mother What is happening currently is not good for our children. If you look at the schools, there’s no respect for teachers and that respect goes a long way, because if you look at the kids of today, tomorrow they are going to be ...

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• 23 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Kate

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Kate Ferguson | Anthropologist My background is in social and cultural anthropology and I worked for three and a half years with the San bushman people in the Northern Cape in community-based conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution which is very much the foundation of any work ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Caitlyn

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Caitlyn Collins | Mother and Midwife How we are born ourselves and how our mothers are born into motherhood is very important and has a huge impact on society at large. I think it is something that through deeper exploration around midwifery and the history of midwifery ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Fudwa

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Fudwa Thomas | Teacher Firstly, my journey started before becoming a teacher. The journey of a teacher starts with what changed their lives, what made them decide to become a teacher. And being a so-called, “Colored Person”, growing up in the Cape Flats with only a mother, ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Kym

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Kym Abrahams | Mother and Natural Therapist I would say my main mission is to grow my kids in a positive free way in their living, in their spirituality, in their thinking, to be free and to be open to free thinking actually, as well, and I ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Albertina

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Albertina Ngqame | Community Activist | Educator and Organic Grower The children are neglected. The children, they lose hope, even from parents, even from the street. Now, what I’m trying to do, to say today, we need to work together. Your child is my child. We have ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Puleng

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Puleng Matthews | Mother and Director Women still are the custodians of the land, right. They are still the people that work the land, but they do not own it. This notion of ownership is a very colonial concept by itself, but in the context of the ...

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• 22 September

  Feminine Africa Voices – Nonzwakazi

  

  Feminine Africa Voices: Nonzwakazi Noluntu Sgwentu | Mother Activist Educator | International Motivational Speaker My name is Nonzwakazi Nolunto Sgwentu. Both my names have got a meaning because in my tradition, children don’t just get given names, there always has to have meaning into it. Nonzwakazi means the deepest beauty, and ...

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