No More Free Passes: For Strong Women Who Refuse to Prove Themselves Anymore

No More Free Passes explores what it has meant for many South African women to be “strong” — independent, capable, and often carrying more than their share.

Through personal stories and cultural insight, Dr. Khutso Madubanya looks at how inherited traditions, social norms, and modern expectations of independence and equality quietly place unfair demands on women’s lives. The book invites readers to pause and rethink familiar ideas about strength, success, and partnership within families and society.

At its heart, No More Free Passes is both an invitation and a challenge.

It helps women take back their sense of choice and redefine what strength means for them, while also calling on men and society more broadly to step up, share responsibility, and better support modern women. In short: no more free passes to the systems, roles, relationships, and inner rules that keep women overburdened!

The book closes with simple, practical tools women can use right away to free themselves, while also calling for more balanced partnerships, care, and accountability.

Intentionally short, it is written for women with full lives, creating space for self-care without demanding more time.