How are womens rights movements in Zimbabwe responding to these multiple crises?
SE: With difficulty. The space for organising in Zimbabwe has shrunk and the material conditions (infrastructure, political space, capacity) that support organising have been severely eroded. Women’s organisations, clubs and networks do exist within urban and rural contexts, with national, regional and global links. Many of these organisations are important in making attempts at meeting women’s practical and strategic needs in multiple sectors: land, health, gender based violence, HIV/AIDS, food security etc. In Zimbabwe at the moment, however, women are only considered full citizens if it serves the interests of the malestream. Women wield tremendous power, how does this power get harnessed in order to push for a politicised women centred agenda? Within the current context it is not always easy to stay politically relevant and to challenge a repressive and patriarchal status quo in a context where fear and repression are high and where people are in survival mode. TM: Women are trying
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