Love and courage
Subtitle: a story of insubordination
By: Pregs Govender
Edition: Second impression 2015, second edition, 2016.
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781431424726
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Legislators; Biography; Women politicians; Women political activists; Politics and government; Femmes politiques; Biographies; Femmes activistes
Description: A reflection on both political and personal power, this memoir from a South African activist ponders the limitations of politics as a tool to create a truly humane democracy. During her years in parliament in the 1990s, Pregs Govender made headlines when she opposed her party's position on arms deals and the AIDS pandemic, and this book offers her insider's look at the battles over these and other issues. At the heart of the discussion, however, are insights about the true source of lasting power, particularly for women, as it reveals that real power cannot be won by wealth, influence, or bullying, but rather from true courage and conviction. Like the writing of Antjie Krog and Mamphela Ramphele, two other outspoken South African feminists, this is an impassioned call for women everywhere to open up the debates, work through many channels, and start speaking truth to power.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Part 1.; title: Life; title: Roots; title: Grounding; title: Teachers; title: Student life; title: The personal is political; title: Teaching; title: Part 2. Politics; title: Solidarity; title: The commissar; title: An injury to one is an injury to all; title: Insubordination; title: Bamboo; title: Part 3. Power; title: Sisterhood; title: In Mandela's parliament; title: Parliament's engine rooms; title: The Women's Budget; title: Minister in charge of the status of women; title: Part 4. Choices; title: Elimination; title: Riding out the storm; title: Part 5. The Arms Deal; title: Priorities; title: Voting against the Arms Deal; title: Consequences; title: Part 6. No HIV/AIDS; title: Patent rights and HIV/AIDS; title: Our children; title: Stand up for our lives; title: Don't mention HIV/AIDS; title: Ubuntu; title: Conclusion.