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Amanda Gouws

Prof Amanda Gouws holds the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University.

Latest Work

The hidden war on women in politics across SA and the rest of Africa

POLITICAL VIOLENCE OP-ED

2 December 2025

The hidden war on women in politics across SA and the rest of Africa

4 min

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Amanda Gouws

7 August 2025

We live in dangerous times of anti-gender ideology and democratic backsliding

4 min

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Amanda Gouws

26 June 2025

A war by other means — necropolitics and the creation of deathscapes in Gaza

4 min

10

Amanda Gouws

7 August 2022

Women’s Day 2022: Just another day on the island of Lord of the Flies

5 min

2

Amanda Gouws

25 April 2022

Freedom Day 2022 — What freedom when life is precarious and poverty all-pervasive?

3 min

1

Beware the ‘politics of pity’ when untangling racism from race trouble

Letter to the Editor

5 October 2020

Beware the ‘politics of pity’ when untangling racism from race trouble

4 min

1

Why we should all know George Floyd’s name

3 June 2020

Why we should all know George Floyd’s name

5 min

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Don’t blame radical feminism for social crises

19 December 2019

Don’t blame radical feminism for social crises

4 min

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