Women in informal settlements are often silenced

GroundUp | 13.11.2025 09:48
On a Thursday afternoon, around 3pm, residents of an informal settlement gathered to discuss the upgrading of their settlement. A young woman called Minenhle Zuma (not her real name) started speaking, but before she could finish, someone in the crowd shouted ‘Angeke siphathwe ngabafazi thina’: ‘we can’t be controlled by women’.