Puleng Segalo

Patriarchal norms influence the design of rehabilitation programmes for women in jail. Shutterstock

September 13, 2023

Rehab for South Africa’s female inmates focuses on domestic chores – instead of finding good work

Sibulelo Qhogwana, University of Johannesburg and Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

Inmates who are mothers tend to be accused of being bad parents.

In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.

August 23, 2023

The power of needlework: how embroidery is helping South African women tell unspeakable stories

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.

Young women are not, as some believe, passive sexual beings. DavideAngelini/Shutterstock

June 8, 2023

Sex, money and love: what South African university students say about romance and dating in a material age

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

There is a great deal of nuance around how young women negotiate their intimate relationships with men.

Detail from the cover of an edition of Amma Darko’s novel Faceless. Sub-Saharan Publishers

May 1, 2023

Amma Darko uses fiction to portray the real plight of women and street children in Ghana

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa and Theresah Patrine Ennin, University of Cape Coast

A psychologist and a literary scholar analyse Faceless, a powerful novel about homeless children - and their mothers.

Sindiwe Magona at home. © Bjorn Rudner/Courtesy Sindiwe Magona

March 5, 2021

Learning from the story of pioneering South African writer Sindiwe Magona

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.

African languages carry a wealth of wisdom and guidance on how to understand one another and the world. shutterstock

February 17, 2021

Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa and Julia Simango, University of South Africa

Many societies in Africa still draw heavily on their traditional beliefs and cultural heritage. Therefore it’s important to take these into consideration when psychology is taught and practised.

Hand hygiene is important to fight COVID-19 but how can you do that without water. Shutterstock

January 19, 2021

COVID-19 policy briefs must be realistic: a review by young southern African scientists

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa; Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, North-West University, and Pradeep Kumar, University of the Witwatersrand

African leaders can make strategies to fight COVID-19 more accessible to the people.

Embroidery by a woman who lived through traumas of apartheid. Puleng Segalo

October 1, 2020

How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.

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