This is a record of the setbacks and victories of South African women. The purpose is not only to reflect fifteen years of women's struggles, but also to celebrate their contributions and to provide inspiration for the future. The book combines articles from SPEAK magazine in the 1980s and 90s with recent interviews to bring it up to date

A record of the setbacks and victories of South African women from early local community-level organisation in 1982 up to the challenges of living in the 1990s and being in government in the new South Africa. This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues of the times: women organising in their own communities, in trade unions and in political organisations, violence against women and personal struggles regarding relationships, lobola, lesbianism and abortion. The final chapter focuses on women in negotiations and in government. The articles are all taken from the South African community magazine "Speak" and gives a sense of what concerned women most acutely during the 1980s and early 1990s. Through most recent interviews, conducted in 1996 and 1997, the debates are brought up to date.

Forward
Introduction
1.Women in Communities: From the Pages of Speak:Women organise in their local communities, Rural Women's Movement, Women and Political Violence in Communities, Struggles Today, Say No -Gcina Mhlope, The Dancer - Gcina Mhlope
2. Women Workers: From the Pages of 'Speak'Women at Work, Women on Strike, Domestic Workers, Workrs are Parents Too! Women in FOSATU and COSATU, Sruggles Today, Madam - Roseline Naapo
3.Fighting Violence against women: From the Pages of Speak, Struggles Today, You Can't Stop the Spirit
4.The personal is political: from the Pages Of 'Speak,' A Woman'r Right to Choose, women and Fear - Paulinah Phungwayo
5. Women in Political Resistance:From the Pages of 'Speak,' Heroes of the Struggle
Today -Nise Malange
6. Women in negotiations, Government and Civil society
From the Pages of 'Speak':Women Make Their Voices Heard in the Negotiations, Women in the New South Africa, Struggles Today
Women of Africa - Sma Khubeka
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