The imperatives of revoking our silence
By: Hosia Malekane
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Reach Publishers
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Wandsbeck, South Africa
Language: eng; nso
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781776361830; 9781928497738
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: South African fiction (English); Sex discrimination against women; Fiction; Women; Violence against; Women college students; Feminism; Discrimination à l'égard des femmes; Romans, nouvelles; Femmes; Violence envers; Étudiantes; Féminisme
Description: Here's a gripping story about Moja. At the start of her second year at university she is thrust into the volatile terrain of feminist activism. A storm of prejudice and abuse breaks around her when a first-year student is sexually molested during orientation week. Later, a female student involved in a turbulent relationship is murdered. Although embroiled in her own youthful emotional turmoil, Moja becomes a fighter against the patriarchy that had reigned for generations. Her rise to the presidency of the Students Representative Council at her university gives her the power to build a pedestal of hope for young women to stand on. She did this by working to dismantle the fallacy upon which the idea of male dominance had always rested.