Welcome to the CSA&G
“Understanding power, exploring diversity and enabling inclusivity”
Situated in Akanyang at UP

Selected publications

(Un)knowing MEN: Africanising gender justice programmes for men in South Africa

Women in the Context of Justice: Continuities and Discontinuities in Southern
Africa

Integrating HIV and AIDS into the curriculum at the University of Pretoria:
Time for transformation?


“Understanding power, exploring diversity and enabling inclusivity”

Selected publications and resources from the CSA&G and partners available for download

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Johan Maritz2025-09-15 14:56:032025-09-18 16:38:18Call for Applications: Early-Career Research Exchange
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CSAG2025-03-28 10:38:342025-03-28 11:00:52Call for Short Stories: “(Non)Consent in Our Lives”
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CSAG2025-03-27 08:26:342025-03-28 10:36:22From Washington to Pretoria and Beyond: Building Local Responses to US Attacks on SOGIESC Minorities’ Rights and Health Services
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CSAG2024-11-18 11:26:242024-11-18 13:07:09Call for Applications: One-Year International Research and Advocacy Exchange
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CSAG2024-10-01 11:34:252024-10-09 11:08:05Children and Corporal Punishment: A Brief Exploration of Physical Violence Against Children as a form of Discipline
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CSAG2024-09-25 10:27:232024-09-25 10:50:50Vulnerability and Protection: Revisiting Legal Definitions through Intersectionality and Sexual Citizenship
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Johan Maritz2023-10-12 13:32:242023-10-12 13:32:24The late Jerry Coovadia – a reflection
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CSAG2023-07-13 11:23:162023-07-13 11:23:16Pretoria-Marburg Queer Conversations Part 2 Finale: Parenthood and Struggles among LGBTIQ+ Individuals Explored
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CSAG2023-06-20 07:28:092023-06-20 07:28:09Africa and Europe together for scientific research: the University of Pretoria is among the key players of the new Clusters of Research Excellence
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CSAG2023-06-15 16:02:392023-06-15 16:09:56Youth Day upon us, youth issues under the rug
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CSAG2023-05-30 13:38:412023-05-30 13:38:41Unpacking Hate Speech Targeting LGBTIQ+ Persons on Africa Day
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CSAG2023-05-04 12:59:382023-05-05 13:02:39“Joy is bringing your full and apologetic self forward and knowing that you are not wrong to exist”- Bev Ditsie during the 1st 2023 Pretoria-Marburg Queer Conversations
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CSAG2023-05-02 12:51:172023-05-05 12:59:10Students take SAAW with a Bang!
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CSAG2023-04-21 12:33:352023-04-26 13:40:11Launch: Troubling cis(heteronormative) institutional practices through the paradigms of trans(formative) policy
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CSAG2023-03-28 14:44:552023-03-28 14:44:55Centre for Human Rights (CHR) and Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G) condemn the passing of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
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CSAG2022-10-25 10:34:032022-10-25 10:37:50Just Leaders volunteers represent CSA&G at Southern Africa Regional Students and Youth Consortium Conference in Malawi
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CSAG2021-08-30 09:41:152021-09-01 12:22:33RECAP: Just Leaders volunteer training camps
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CSAG2021-08-18 08:43:272021-08-18 08:43:27The Erecting of Nehanda
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CSAG2021-08-05 15:04:362021-08-18 11:46:52CSA&G welcomes new director: Prof Rebecca Hodes
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CSAG2021-06-28 12:27:432021-06-28 12:27:43The Zimbabwean National Heroine: (Re)reading Nationalism, Gender and Sexuality
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CSAG2021-05-30 12:18:582021-05-30 12:18:58Gendering the Bun in the Oven: Gender Reveal Parties and their Impacts
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CSAG2021-05-13 12:37:282021-05-13 12:37:28Old Ways, New Times
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CSAG2020-12-13 17:31:342020-12-13 17:31:34Our home and our mother: The gendering of nature in climate change discourses
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CSAG2020-12-01 05:45:372020-12-01 05:45:37What AIDS epidemic? – a World AIDS Day message from the CSA&G
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CSAG2020-11-06 06:48:212020-11-09 11:18:51Fighting for Pure Lands: Land Purity, Polluting Figures, Male Power and Violence in Zimbabwe
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CSAG2020-09-29 12:25:202020-09-29 12:25:20My Body and Me: Personal Reflections on the Idea of “Violence” From a Queer[1] South African Woman
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CSAG2020-09-23 09:27:172020-09-23 09:27:46Am I eligible to be a refugee?
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CSAG2020-09-21 09:19:332020-09-29 12:31:07Female Genital Mutilation: sacred cultural practice or human rights violation?
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CSAG2020-09-01 05:35:282020-09-01 05:36:08A bitter makoti
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CSAG2020-08-17 15:24:022020-08-17 15:24:02(Un)masking other dangerous pandemics within the Covid-19 lockdown
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CSAG2020-08-17 12:31:542020-08-17 12:31:54Powerful in Pink: The corporatisation and commodification of ‘women’s empowerment’
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CSAG2020-08-11 11:04:342020-08-11 11:10:06CSA&G Statement on Gender and #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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CSAG2020-08-05 08:40:232020-08-05 08:40:23A hard life in a hard Lockdown
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CSAG2020-08-03 09:00:592020-08-03 09:00:59REVIEW: A magnifying glass and a fine-tooth comb: Understanding adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexual vulnerability
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CSAG2020-07-10 12:52:532020-07-10 12:54:31Empowered to please my man: (Post)feminist discourses in contemporary romantic comedies
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CSAG2020-07-10 10:24:572020-07-10 10:24:57A critical engagement on gender and gender-based violence in community settings
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CSAG2020-07-03 09:45:042020-09-04 13:08:46Sex, Drugs and COVID-19
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CSAG2020-07-03 09:43:022020-07-03 09:43:02The J(g)endered nation: Zimbabwe’s heroic and macho-currencies
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CSAG2020-07-02 07:40:132020-07-02 07:40:13New CSA&G publication – A magnifying glass and a fine-tooth comb: understanding adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexual vulnerability
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CSAG2020-06-19 16:09:252020-06-19 16:11:42Digital advocacy on GBV during COVID-19
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Johan Maritz2020-06-19 06:32:162020-06-19 06:32:16CSA&G to resume essential services on Hatfield Campus from 24 June 2020
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CSAG2020-06-17 10:34:562021-01-21 10:11:23Mothering and Lockdown
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CSAG2020-06-16 05:00:502020-06-16 08:58:09Launch – Social Justice Stories: Young People Reflect on HIV, Sexualities, Gender, Race and Inequality
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CSAG2020-06-16 04:00:292020-06-16 08:57:16Publication launch: Just Leaders – sharing their reflections on social justice
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CSAG2020-06-12 11:00:362020-06-12 11:57:39Just Leaders and Black Lives Matter: thoughts and reflections from CSA&G staff
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Johan Maritz2020-06-03 10:28:462020-06-03 11:33:32Is it or is it not LGBTIQ+ Pride Month in South Africa?
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CSAG2020-05-29 09:43:512020-06-01 07:12:42Give a woman a fish
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CSAG2020-05-28 10:55:322020-05-28 10:55:32Ubuntu and solidarity in times of Covid-19: Challenges and contradictions as communities grapple with ways of being and doing during a pandemic
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CSAG2020-05-23 10:37:542020-05-23 10:39:36CSA&G statement on attacks directed at Prof Glenda Gray
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CSAG2020-05-22 14:18:202020-07-08 06:55:48The Unwarranted, Unneeded and Unprovoked Side Effects of Covid-19 on the Black Community
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CSAG2020-05-22 13:01:382022-08-24 12:54:59Gender equality and chores under Lockdown
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CSAG2020-05-22 11:28:172020-05-22 11:28:17“Change is Coming, Whether You Like it or Not”: Greta Thunberg as a Threat to the Stability of Capitalist and Patriarchal Systems
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CSAG2020-05-19 13:01:022020-05-19 13:01:41Press Statement: CSA&G and SHR, University of Pretoria, Recognise, Support and Commemorate International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) 2020
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CSAG2020-05-13 14:23:022020-07-08 06:55:58Food, symbolism and gendered identities in Zimbabwean Politics: Mama Grace’s ice cream and the 2017 Zanu-Pf leadership change
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CSAG2020-05-12 07:35:452020-05-12 07:36:18Reflecting on my time at the CSA&G – Chris Joubert
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CSAG2020-05-11 15:24:022020-05-12 12:03:50SOCIAL DIS – EASE: A reflection
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CSAG2020-05-08 09:01:072020-05-14 20:27:59When losing means everything and nothing
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CSAG2020-05-07 14:46:032022-08-24 12:54:32Locks Down and Quarantine Queens: Thoughts on Gender and Hair Fixation During a Global Pandemic
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CSAG2020-05-05 13:54:532020-05-11 14:58:47Social distancing and privilege – looking at Covid-19 through an intersectional lens
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CSAG2020-05-05 08:04:082020-05-22 12:14:56Shame on you, shame on me: a pandemic of shameThis site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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