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Dr Shakira Choonara is a multi-award-winning independent public health practitioner. She is widely recognised for championing universal health coverage, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and youth development. She serves is a member of the International Congress Council for the upcoming 18th World Congress on Public Health to be … Read more
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Artist, academic and activist Dr Farieda Nazier uses memory work to look at how present-day experiences are influenced by colonial and apartheid history. Her sculptural and video installations intend to provoke discussion and engagement. (Memory work is a process of engaging with the past through ethical and historical lenses.) Born: 10 January 1980 in Mitchell’s … Read more
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Welcome to 2026, where Africa is still the youngest continent on earth, and the number of Africans under 25 is now so large that it’s basically shaping the future of everything. For QW+, we see this in the context of the new post-journalism world, where young people everywhere forgo traditional news brands in favour of … Read more
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Blurb: Author and healthcare executive Dr. Augusta Dorning brings four decades of experience across South Africa’s public, non-profit, and private healthcare sectors. Dorning has published The Power of Visualisation, co-authored with Dr. Shirley Zinn, a book that blends neuroscience, practical tools, and authentic African storytelling to equip readers to “create a life of purpose, possibility, … Read more
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When you turn on the news or scroll through a feed, whose voices do you hear? Whose expertise counts as authority? Across Africa, too many stories still leave out women, rural communities, and other marginalised groups. Visibility in African media still favours a narrow few. Quote This Woman+ will be at the African Women in … 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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Asanda Ngoasheng is the new chair of the Board of Directors for Quote This Woman+. She is also Expert 1: the first expert that QW+ signed up to its database back in 2019 when we started as a brand-new feminist media non-profit. Ngoasheng is a socio-political analyst with a focus on policy analysis, political events, … 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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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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Caroline Peters is a seasoned African feminist, activist, and human rights defender with over three decades of experience combating gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa. She is the Founder and Director of the Callas Foundation, based on the Cape Flats, which supports survivors of violence through court accompaniment, psychosocial services, community kitchens, and educational empowerment … Read more