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The real message of International Women’s Day

March 6, 2016

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Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day (IWD). It comes at a time of ongoing global economic crisis and when we, in South Africa, face further massive job losses, turmoil on the university campuses and in the labour movement. Perhaps, as never before, has the real message of the founders of IWD been more pertinent.

Missing the point on Women’s Day

March 9, 2014

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The founders of International Women's Day would be spinning in their graves given the way the day is now, for the most part, celebrated.