Lucy Pearl, Joint PhD🇿🇦
@LucyPearl_khofi
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Joint PhD Scholar |Wits 🇿🇦 & UvA 🇳🇱|Public Health|Medical Anthropologist |Multi-Award Winning Activist 🇿🇦|M&G200Young SA| Founder @EkklesiaHealth
Pretoria, South Africa
Joined June 2014
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Steve Biko's wife, Ntsiki, son, Samora, and mother, Alice at his funeral, 1977. Image Source: Bailey's Archive
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For the first time, the world marks #WorldCervicalCancerEliminationDay. Cervical cancer is the 4th most common cancer in women, yet it’s preventable and curable when detected early. Experts from the Eastern & Southern Africa region are meeting in Cape Town to advance HPV
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Wits University’s newly appointed Senior Director for Research, Professor Brett Bowman, says “research leadership cannot be reduced to a technical enterprise, it must be innovative.” Read More: https://t.co/GiFC8VZOqX
#WitsForGood #WitsNews #ResearchForGood
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The Wits Animal Research Ethics Committee has launched Infonetica, a streamlined online platform that brings all research-related workflows, documents, and approvals into one place. From 2026, the system will expand to Human Research (Medical) and Human Research (Non-Medical)
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📢 Public Lecture Invitation Join us at Wits University for a public lecture titled “Africa in the G20: Multilateralism in a Shifting Global Order.” Presented by Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. 🗓 Friday, 21
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Every graduate has a story of victory - long nights, family sacrifice, balancing work, overcoming doubt. On Friday, 5 Dec, share your story and tag #MakeEducationFashionable and stand a chance to win R10000. On 6 Dec, come celebrate at #MEFConvocation at Pheasant Hotel in
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Portrait of Inkosi Albert Luthuli by Terrence Spencer, c 1961.
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They can never make me hate Joburg. I love this place.💜
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The City of Tshwane. A gorgeous view from Fountains Valley. We visited the area today to check on progress to clean and beautify this entry into our City from the R21. @CityTshwane
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UPDATE: The Menstrual Health Bill discussion in Parliament, planned for Nov 21, has been postponed. A new 2026 date will be announced. 🇿🇦🩸 Keep the momentum: fill out the form, sign the petition + share! We continue to stand with @womenforchange5 & the #G20WomensShutdown✊💜
[WATCH] Support the Menstrual Health Rights Bill We are calling on Parliament to urgently adopt and implement the Menstrual Health Rights Bill. 🔗: https://t.co/oSaf7RjgCu
#menstrualhealthbill #menstrualleave #southafrica
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I still can't believe it😭! The entire fraternity lost such a trailblazer. I still hope that she will respond to my text😭. I couldn't focus today 😭💔
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GOOD MORNING SOUTH AFRICA. OUR #MenstrualHealthBill has made it over 2000 responses 🥳 🩸 With just 8 days to go, we need everyone’s support. 🔗: https://t.co/odVIcwUtAk
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Sitting on 1906 responses. Can we get to 2000? 🥳 🔗:
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Period poverty affects millions of South Africans every month denying learners education, women dignity, and communities equality. As a coalition of menstrual health activists, educators, and civil...
9 days away till the discussion of the #MenstrualHealthBill in Parliament and we’re sitting on 1704 responses. Can we make it to 2000?! 🇿🇦 🩸 ✈️
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You're too kind, thank you 🙌🏾.
What you see on social media is just the tip of the iceberg. The work that these incredible women do BTS? Especially in the reproductive/menstrual health space. I'm truly in awe. @_NokuzolaSA
@Candice_Chirwa
@LucyPearl_khofi
@hlengz_hms
@LesegoMotshwane Tag others ♥️
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STATEMENT FROM WITS UNIVERSITY ON GENDER BASED HARM Wits University condemns all forms of gender-based harm and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to creating a safe, inclusive and socially just environment for all members of our community. The University has a zero-tolerance
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838 responses of support for the #MenstrualHealthBill. Can we get to 1000 responses South Africa? 🇿🇦 🩸
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Umthoba Mpilo! My latest article has just been published this morning with the South African Review of Sociology (SARS). In this paper, I continue to explore the dangers of the neoliberal university in SA, and its effects on gender + precarity.
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[WATCH] Support the Menstrual Health Rights Bill We are calling on Parliament to urgently adopt and implement the Menstrual Health Rights Bill. 🔗: https://t.co/oSaf7RjgCu
#menstrualhealthbill #menstrualleave #southafrica
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