Zimbabwe: Time for women to stop being nice

“It is time to do away with the niceties, to get back to 'rights language' and for women to stop asking men to be nice, as though they are doing them a favour when it comes to women's issues." This is the tough talk from Zimbabwean feminist Everjoice Win, who was in Durban recently to give a lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Win believes that "gender language" does the (women's) cause no good, and cautions that politicians use events like Women's Day as a platform for their own agendas.