Building an ANC Women’s League on the right side of history

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Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

In making this pithy observation, Germany’s celebrated feminist and dedicated revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg could well have been galvanising all of us to rally around the noble global project of the emancipation of women; a project in which, as women, we have made huge strides, but for which a lot more still needs to be done.