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born 1972 South Africa

Pumla Dineo Gqola (born 3 December, 1972) is a South African academic, writer, and feminist, best known for her 2015 book Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award, and Female Fear Factory, which won the 2022 Best Non-Fiction Monograph Award from the South African National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).

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It is a time for rigour and not a time for safety.

We will do well to remember that students have always been at the heart of academic freedom debates in this country.

Patriarchy works like other systems of oppression, like racism and capitalism, to value some people and brutalise others.

Universities have to deal with discomfort made possible by a new generation of students.

The commitment to actively oppose and end patriarchy is one.

I am a southern African feminist author and academic.

But I also disagree completely with young people who say nothing has changed. I mean as messed up and as flawed as it is, it's not the country I grew up in.

We are socialised into the Female Fear Factory in ways similar to how we are made fluent in language.

I was a very enthusiastic reader as a child.

To pretend that threats to matters of academic freedom emerge exclusively from sources outside the academy requires that we look away from pressure on scholars to self-censor.

Academic freedom is about testing the limits of this risk and helping clarify for all of us, even if we don't agree, why academic freedom continues to matter.

We know thinking is risky work.

I think those of us who really believed in the project that this was the right way to change this country, I think we underestimated that critique that said too many compromises had been made.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pumla Dineo Gqola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.