Secular Society South Africa

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Freethinking and Social Justice: Questioning the Rules We Inherit

SA Secular Society member Emma Campbell turns her lens on social justice, from a Freethinker’s point of view. Throughout history, many social institutions and customs have been defended on the grounds that they are traditional, natural or ordained by a higher authority. Freethinking challenges us to ask a different question: Are these ideas actually justified?

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Women’s Day 2026: Time For A Reality Check

Every year on 9 August, South Africans commemorate Women’s Day, marking the anniversary of the 1956 march when more than 20,000 women united in protest against the apartheid pass laws. Their courage became a powerful symbol of resistance to injustice and a reminder that ordinary people can bring about extraordinary change. Seventy years on Seventy

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