Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

My Heroine I had seen Frida Kahlo on t-shirts, cushions and handbags, but never really knew who she was. “Perhaps she was just a famous painter,” I thought. Till now. The same Retha Ingenbleek who introduced me to SPAR and ushered me in as a brand ambassador, briefed...
Celebrating Women’s Month

Celebrating Women’s Month

I’m celebrating Women’s Month by becoming acutely aware of gender issues. I’m trying new ways to communicate my lack of knowledge on the subject of feminism, gender equality and ways to implement justice and fairness with the aim of realising a...
A Feminist in Training

A Feminist in Training

Although I have always seen myself as gregarious, I never saw myself as a feminist. Now, after many years of exposure to a world of inequality, abuse and general misconduct by a patriarchal society, I have chosen activism over complicity. I am a feminist in training....