Love, Courage & Insubordination
The Official Website of Pregs Govender, Author and Feminist
Creating community & solidarity through writing
Connecting to ancestors, artists, activists & movements
Invoking the power of love & courage to be insubordinate to injustice
The Book
Digital version of the Second Edition now available on Amazon Kindle
Hard copies available
in SA for R250, contact loveandcourage.books@gmail.com
First Edition
Second Edition
"Pregs Govender’s autobiography is an inspiring and a cautionary narrative about the courage needed to retain ethical and political vision in struggles for individual and social freedom and against all injustice and authoritarianism... Govender’s prose is evocative and often almost lyrical. The narrative voice...makes this work highly inspiring and optimistic."
"Love and Courage exemplifies a better way to write about ideological issues (such as socialism, feminism and political economy) for the wider public. By telling a story, and discussing values, principles and vision as they are deployed in events and real-life situations, we give life to concepts and big ideas."
"This is the summer of things we can touch...a summer of women in high places making meaning"
- Makhosazana Xaba at the launch of Love and Courage
The late Ahmed Kathrada addressing the book-launch.When Pregs resigned as an MP, Kathrada wrote, "Please continue to make us walk tall by your courage and devotion"
“A searingly honest memoir by an insubordinate woman who refuses to be silenced – an inspiration to insubordinate sisters everywhere.”
- Elinor Sisulu, Author of Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our Lifetime
Keorapetse Kgositsile, 'Bra Willie' reading at the book launch, "This way I salute you"
The cover of Voice, Power & Soul: Portraits of African Feminists attending the African Feminist Forum (AFF)
AFF launch of Love, Courage and Insubordination
African Feminist Forum, Ghana
Pregs after workshop on love, courage and insubordination with a new generation of women leaders from across the continent at UCT’s Mandela School
Pregs inciting love, courage & insubordination at UCT's Transformation Month.
Pregs on a retreat of love, courage and insubordination with Ayanda Mvimbi, Dawn Cavanagh, Siphokazi Mthathi and Rukia Cornelius.