“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a statement released in March last year. These appalling figures are just one of the many consequences of gender-based violence and abuse, namely domestic abuse, which is defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner
‘Big’ days in sport — or even just weekends — almost always spell an increase in trauma and gender violence. One doctor remembers a day she had to put her compassion aside
Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated
Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.
SA is in a rush to roll out its national GBV action plan. But as bureaucracy and the pandemic slow progress, violence against women continues unabated
This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets from 2018 to 2020. It’s also a tribute to the faceless, nameless women whose stories remain untold.
The interim steering committee tasked with setting up a gender-based violence and femicide structure has not been convened for almost two years
The violent murder of Mam’ Ntshangase is not the first of its kind and will most certainly not be the last
Rape, kidnapping and victim-blaming are endemic and perpetrators protected, report finds
Many workers, including managers, like working remotely, but research shows it can be tough on most other employees.
Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour
South Africa needs active citizens and real change starts in the home, with conversations about social justice
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
In the frantic pursuit of patriarchal ideas of manhood, boys often lose their ability to love — this paves the way for cruelty and violence
Funded by the private sector, the government will be able to ‘scale up’ initiatives against this second pandemic
UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng talks to Nicolene de Wee about transformation, the bullying claims against her, and her passion for music
Being selected as the Inaugural Obama Leader in Africa in 2018 and now ranked among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, Melene Rossouw talks to Nicolene de Wee about how she went from growing up in a poor neighbourhood to become a lawyer, activist and the cofounder of the Women Lead Movement. But she’s not all about work — she loves jazz, R&B and hip-hop
Many people do not know how to get into a place of safety or information on how to get help when they need it most. A new hotline is changing that
By looking at the past and understanding how racism and gender-based violence has lined the hallways of educational institutions, we can learn new ways of being
In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions
The theatre piece draws on folklore and an Afrofuturist world to interrogate social ills
The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she hates horror movies
Khulekani Mayisa’s new film, Power to the Purple, is an intensely personal collaborative project
From art exhibitions to film festivals, we’ve got your entertainment covered this weekend to the next
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Dr Thembisile Xulu, the newly appointed chief executive of the Sanac Trust, tells Nicolene de Wee about a new plan to fight HIV, TB and STIs — and her hip-hop dance moves
Brigadier Sifiso Cele denies the rape allegations, saying that they are part of a smear campaign and that criminal charges should have been opened if the accusations were true
Too many laws and customs in too many African countries still treat women as minors
Three amendment Bills recently submitted to Parliament have the potential to change the legal landscape for sex offenders, especially the proposed duty to report and act on incidents of gender based violence
Perhaps the government does want us to know how bad things really are
Pieter du Plessis’s post-apocalyptic film throws up some interesting questions, but it also needs to work a little harder
President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and socialising