Mr Ramaphosa, you have seen and listened. Now it is time to make SA safe for women
As the two-day summit came to end, a declaration was reached and the mood was mostly triumphant, but it didn’t go without a few stumbling blocks
"Twenty-thousand people were killed in the past year. The majority of killers and victims are men," Ramaphosa says at summit.
"I am afraid the president will be asking for many more minutes of silence and have many fewer voters next year."
Is the articulation of anger helping to create more value around women’s safety, our lives and our needs in relation to the men in our society?
‘Today, women might be politically free like all other South Africans, but they remain enslaved in the shackles of a predatory patriarchy’
This, after a poster advertising the event, hosted by Shevolution Africa, sparked outrage on social media
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Attending the total shutdown march gave one woman hope for her own family
The frictions that came to the fore at the march expose a need for forms of mobilisation independent of party politics
"I will speak out about abusers in the workplace, whatever the consequences".
As we reflect on that day, let us yet again question our governments about the well-meaning documents they sign to protect us but do not act on.
To be a woman in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe means to be in perpetual fear of some form of abuse at the hands of men
Judging from the police’s conduct, buildings are more valuable than the bodies of women
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday said that he had accepted the resignation of Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana.
In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.
In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.
I live in Kenya but I can’t return to South Africa until women can walk freely on its streets without being harassed, raped or killed
South Africa has to tackle the scourge in the same visionary way it has fought against HIV and Aids
New research reveals complex relationships between harsh parenting and violence later in life for children.
Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu said at a public meeting in Belhar that ‘it had nothing to do with that’.
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Rape and physical abuse rates more than double those reported in national studies have been recorded in Diepsloot in northern Johannesburg
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Bhekisisa is launching a free gender-based violence helpline in Diepsloot
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Bhekisisa is launching a free gender-based violence helpline in Diepsloot
‘One-stop’ government centres face loss of important psychological help as international funding dries up
With the potential for retribution and exposure comes an increased potential for retraumatising the victim.
Southern Africa urgently needs indicators and accurate data to fight gender-based violence.
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How do governments in Southern Africa plan to stop violence against women without realistic targets, effective indicators and commitment?
The most devastating impact of violence comes not from wars, but from child and woman abuse; an area often neglected and needing much more attention.
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The Hindu goddess provides a role model for women confronted with sexual injustice.
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The loss could fund wage subsidies for all unemployed youths, build half a million RDP houses, or give healthcare to a quarter of all South Africans
A thousand kilometres away from the Oscar Pistorius verdict, Nkosinam Xabadiya – who admits to having killed his former partner – will learn his fate.
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