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To show up for others

To show up for others

Life is short, Make time for your friends and loved ones, especially when they need you during a challenging time, don’t ask if you can visit, Just Do It! My heart is full and I am so grateful that I was able to be there for two very special humans.

We look forward to the future

We look forward to the future

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible"  - Christopher Reeve It still feels like 2020 started just yesterday, yet it’s been the longest year of our lives. Like the memes say, we had January 2020, a pandemic, now we’re right at the beginning of December. And by...

Making the world a better place.

Making the world a better place.

For a while now, we’ve been trying to make this world a better place. We’re seeking solutions to sustainable environments, we’re fighting for laws that are inclusive and recognise everybody, we’re advocating for representation for everyone on our media platforms;...

The Practice of Gratitude

The Practice of Gratitude

We came out of August filled with gratitude after a successful Annual Summit and then went straight into Heritage month which is celebrated in South Africa every September. A month where we can take a moment to appreciate and reflect with pride on our Heritage....

Generation Equality

Generation Equality

The foundation is there, but the building is far from finished. "If we love ourselves deeply, and deeply feel that love, and deeply live that love, we will never be defeated." - Alice Walker Women’s day and month is celebrated at different times around the world, but...

A Pandemic within a Pandemic

A Pandemic within a Pandemic

As if COVID19 wasn’t enough, the past month of June was one of the bloodiest in South Africa. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a fight we thought we would have won by now. But instead, fellow women’s bodies are literally piling up like no one is watching. There are a...

She for her and her for she

She for her and her for she

We’ve often heard the belittling stereotypes that women can’t work well together, or that we are catty towards one another and don’t often like to see another woman succeed. Although we’ve constantly tried to break out of this notion that we are somehow too deficient...

I don’t have it all together, and that’s okay.

I don’t have it all together, and that’s okay.

Quarantine seems to have been going on forever and while it seems things are beginning to open up, time has melded together; it’s become difficult to separate Wednesday from Friday. At the start of this isolation process (which I still fully support), there was a...

Silver Linings and Small Mercies

Silver Linings and Small Mercies

Overnight our world has changed and many of us are feeling the severe physical, economic, financial, emotional and even mental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Normal, we suddenly realize, is a privilege. While many of us are shut up in our homes and are working...

The Woman Spring

The Woman Spring

It seems a little odd to have this title because to be fair we’ve had the ‘wave of the woman’ for a little while now. Our voices have been finding space on different platforms and in various areas, we’re gaining traction. And of course, we have those who don’t...