This is where depression regularly ends in suicide and ther… - Pregs Govender

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This is where depression regularly ends in suicide and there is no place to run for women, girls, transgendered and gender non-conforming people

Pregs Govender

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Pregs Govender (born 15 February 1960) is a South African human rights activist, author, and politician. Brought up in a political family she was taking action against apartheid by the age of 14. She became a teacher in Durban joining unions and the ANC. In 1994 she entered the first South African Democratic parliament where she argued for women's rights including the laws permitting abortions.

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