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Incest

Abortion: SA must speak up
Article
/ 28 September 2018

Abortion: SA must speak up

Our country has a duty to ensure women’s rights are protected here and in the region

By Colleen Lowe Morna
Time for the pussy to grab back
Article
/ 9 February 2017

Time for the pussy to grab back

A film about the sexual abuse of one woman should be the start of a movement to say: ‘No!’

By Meg Rickards
Breaking the pact of silence
Article
/ 11 September 2014

Breaking the pact of silence

My mother was raped by a church elder, something that would affect the rest of her life. This made what happened after, something even worse.

By Pedro Tabensky
Emma Brockes: In defiance of cruelty, a vital grace
Article
/ 21 June 2013

Emma Brockes: In defiance of cruelty, a vital grace

When an English journalist’s mother dies, she unearths some extraordinarily painful secrets that have been buried for years, writes Charles Leonard.

By Staff Reporter
Diary of ‘incest’ rips SA family apart
Article
/ 22 March 2013

Diary of ‘incest’ rips SA family apart

Last month, the California Court of Appeal has ordered that a pair of South African parents be barred from visiting their grandchildren.

By Rowan Philp
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Article
/ 17 September 2009

‘Australia’s Fritzl’ charged with raping daughter for 30 years

An Australian man raped his daughter almost daily for 30 years in a case that echoes the incest crimes of Josef Fritzl in Austria.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 March 2009

Fritzl damaged from the ‘cellar of his soul’

A court psychiatrist yesterday described how Josef Fritzl had locked up his daughter as a way of compensating for a loveless childhood.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 23 October 2008

I was born to rape, Fritzl tells doctor

Josef Fritzl, the man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, has told a psychiatrist he was ”born to rape”.

By Staff Reporter

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