Speak, published by Speak Collective, is a publication focussing on issues of interest mainly to women. Violence against women, including wife battery and rape, health issues such as pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, better work conditions as well as representation by trade unions, including domestic workers, resistance to the apartheid legislation and the campaign for equitable human rights are among the issues discussed.
Archive record
Speak
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Speak. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0110312
South African History Online (2016) 'Speak', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0110312 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).
South African History Online, Speak [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0110312, (accessed 21 July 2026).
"Speak." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0110312. Accessed 21 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Speak." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0110312.
Further reading
DISA Archive
Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
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