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Fazila Farouk

Fazila is the brainchild, founder and executive director of SACSIS. She qualified with a M.Sc. in development planning from the University of Natal in 1996 and has worked in civil society ever since. Fazila has also completed a Ph.D-level course in social theory at Wits University's School of Public and Development Management, which she passed with distinction.

Fazila's experience includes research, policy advocacy and new media. She has written extensively about civil society and development in South Africa.

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The Weakening of Women's Chances for Economic Equity - The broad context is that African women pay the price for failing states and a hostile political economy that deepens poverty and widens inequalities in many societies of the global South.

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