ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the complex question of gender in Africa, and in South Africa specifically, in terms of the other positions of race and class that operate in Africa to such debilitating effect. It is divided into two parts: Works and Words. Works takes the format of a group interview between two young women, Lucille Jacobs and Onthatile Makgalemela, who were both students of the author in the first year of a rather risky experiment: bringing the unit system way of teaching to Africa. The interview was recorded by a single camera (man) and is available on Vimeo. The chapter discusses their final year projects, both of which addressed the complex question of gender in direct, if not always wholly successful ways. It argues that the use of the term ‘scientific’ is problematic, particularly in light of South Africa’s historical experiment with apartheid, the ‘science of race’, which wrought spatial havoc on its citizen.
