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Q: What do Pratley Putty, Pinotage and the Prepaid Mobile have in common with South Africa’s First Thursdays?A: They’re all South African inventions that went global. Quote This Woman+ has started its own First Thursdays programmes with a series of online webinars at 3 pm SAST on the first Thursday of each month, where you, … Read more
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Journalists get a lot of press releases – and this sums up how most of them feel about it: “For decades I started my mornings weeding through the press releases in my inbox, one finger hovering over the ‘delete’ key and ready to strike.” Neil Hayes, writing here: Journalists’ Advice on How to Write Press … Read more
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Voices 24/25 Fellows Sign Off With Power On 10 July, the Voices 24/25 Fellows gathered on Zoom for a closing ceremony marking the end of their six-month journey with QW+. What followed was a less formal send-off and a more electric handover: a screen full of beaming faces, celebrating what it means to find your … Read more
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A Message to QW+ 2024/25 Fellowship graduates by Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, former QW+ board member, and currently the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. To Quote This Woman+ Class of 2024/2025 Fellows, some words as you reflect on the contributions that you have made and your dedication over the months. I join … Read more
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A big part of being a speaker is being able to be reflective, to be able to be reflexive. And that means really thinking about, when my voice is warranted? And when is me speaking, actually speaking over the very people that I want to represent and whose voices I want to be able to amplify.
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Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal – Quote This Woman+ (QW+), a South African non-profit organisation dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in the media, today announces the successful completion of its first South Africa Voices Fellowship Programme. The programme, which ran from December 2024 to June 2025, took a group of dedicated women+ and LGBTQI+ activists from marginalised, rural, … Read more
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Access the Source Audit Tracker This simple Google Sheet will help track how women+ and impacted audiences are represented in African news stories. It will record the number of sources quoted, gender breakdown, and whether those quoted are given agency. This means if they speak for themselves, are presented as experts, and are not portrayed … Read more
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Samukezi Mrubula-Ngwenya is a committed social justice activist and academic, advocating for the rights of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer (LBQ) individuals in South Africa. With a research focus on Gender Politics, her work explores LBQ narratives and lived experiences, social movements, democracy and political activism, African sexuality, gender-based violence, and Feminist Foreign Policy. Her academic … Read more
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By René Sparks On June 26, 2025, the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) co hosted a Gender-Responsive Budgeting Workshop. The workshop included Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), Section 27, Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), TB Accountability Consortium (TBAC), Equal Education (EE), Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCISS), Black Sash, Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), South … Read more
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Every June, rainbows appear across social media timelines and shopfronts. But at Quote This Woman+, we know that Pride is more than a campaign moment, it’s a call to action. It’s a reminder that queer lives are political, vulnerable, powerful, and always worth quoting, all year round. Pride traces its roots to resistance. The first … Read more