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The Australian leg of Dr Akuch Anyieth’s international book tour for Decolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities unfolded as both an intellectual and deeply personal journey. Throughout October, leading Australian universities [...]
In June, AVReQ Post-Doctoral fellow Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan participated as a delegate in the ‘Global Cultural Assembly’, hosted by the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. The week long gathering brought together scholars, activists, artists, [...]
As South Sudan continues to grapple with sexual and gender-based violence, which remains one of the most pressing scourges in society, legal scholar Dr Akuch Kuol emphasises the need for comprehensive interventions that go beyond legal reforms. [...]
On Thursday, 29 May, the AVReQ community gathered for a seminar featuring research proposal presentations by our first-year MA and PhD students. This annual event forms a core part of our academic development programme, [...]
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Three years after the barbaric incident at Stellenbosch University where a white student, Theuns du Toit, urinated on a black student’s study material, a court has acquitted him of criminal charges. A legally sound outcome [...]
Author: Sophia Olivia Sanan Post-Doctoral Fellow at AVReQ In mid-February 2025 AVReQ hosted renowned scholar Professor Jacqueline Rose, author of numerous seminal texts on feminism, sexuality, psychoanalysis and violence, for a public conversation with AVReQ [...]
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Wilgenhof has been allowed to exist as a place of exception for far too long, a place where some men created their private world, and, invisible behind black hoods, exercised power to [...]
Nomzamo Portia Ntombela One would have hoped for institutional and cultural change towards women after 30 years of democracy, especially in political parties. But it seems as Naledi Chirwa’s letter reveals women must be forever [...]
Wilhelm Verwoerd Dear Menere (Sirs), One of our promising traditions is the encouragement om nie 'n papegaai te wees nie (to not be a parrot). In early 2022, I revisited this parrot metaphor at a [...]
Siphosethu Baleni On August 30, 2023, Thandile Ngxikwe, an activist focused on issues surrounding gender and other intersectional experiences of oppression faced by students at Stellenbosch University, collaborated with AVReQ and First Rand Empowerment Foundation [...]
