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Lady Zamar: Is a woman’s word ever good enough on its own?

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 3 Mar 2020

After news that house songstress Lady Zamar opened a rape case against hip-hop crooner Sjava, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has removed him from its 2020 lineup

Survivors of gender-based violence fight to be heard

Article Tebadi Mmotla - 10 Aug 2019

Gender-based violence is escalating as the social crisis deepens. Some activists want a special council for survivors

Rapists who prey on the mentally ill

Article Rolivhuwa Sadiki - 29 Jul 2019

Mentally ill men and women are easy targets for rapists, who are often known to them, and they don’t always report such incidents through fear

Soaring sexual violence pushes Sierra Leone to face ‘rape culture’

Africa Saidu Bah - 14 Jan 2019

Many attacks go unpunished, and those that are reported often fail to end in indictments or make it through the judicial system, rights groups say

SA to launch plan to tackle gender-based violence. Read Ramaphosa’s speech here.

Article Bhekisisa Team Author - 1 Nov 2018

"Twenty-thousand people were killed in the past year. The majority of killers and victims are men," Ramaphosa says at summit.

Could this protect hundreds of children from being raped?

Article Nelisiwe Msomi - 21 Aug 2018

Life Orientation 2.0? Why it may be time for a new take on an old subject.

Why rape counselling needs to hit the road and other ways to make services better

Article Nelisiwe Msomi - 3 Jul 2018

When people can't get to healthcare, healthcare needs get to them.

Teach our boy children well

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Mar 2018

We must teach our sons to respect women, call out buddies and check our own attitude

#MeToo implies we’re the problem

Article Veronica Sigamoney - 5 Jan 2018

Breaking the silence on sexual violation is powerful but how we do it is another question

Rape myths inflict more harm on victims

Article Palesa Lebitse - 5 Jan 2018

Sexual assault survivors are silenced by societal prejudice, lack of support from their community or family, secondary trauma and rape myths.

A silence that begins at home

Article Kagure Mugo - 1 Nov 2017

We need to air our own complicity in muting the voices of sexual assault victims

Snap of shame: The rough road to stamping out ‘revenge porn’

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Aug 2017

Victims will suffer while laws criminalising image-based sexual abuse are being developed

Stop victim-blaming. It’s perverse

Analysis Eusebius McKaiser - 19 May 2017

"We must ask difficult questions about the underlying drivers of violence if we are to eliminate gratuitous violence in society"

Suspect arrested in grisly murder of Klerksdorp teen

Article Sihle Manda - 15 May 2017

Her death comes barely a week after Karabo Mokoena’s 22-year-old burnt body was discovered in a shallow grave in Johannesburg, last week.

Zapiro needs to take a hard look in the mirror

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Apr 2017

It’s a pity that the cartoonist's work is still able to hurt so many who encounter it even casually, writes the Daily Vox team.

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Latest articles on Rape Culture

Lady Zamar: Is a woman’s word ever good enough on its own?

Survivors of gender-based violence fight to be heard

Rapists who prey on the mentally ill

Soaring sexual violence pushes Sierra Leone to face ‘rape culture’

SA to launch plan to tackle gender-based violence. Read Ramaphosa’s speech here.

Could this protect hundreds of children from being raped?

Why rape counselling needs to hit the road and other ways to make services better

Teach our boy children well

#MeToo implies we’re the problem

Rape myths inflict more harm on victims

A silence that begins at home

Snap of shame: The rough road to stamping out ‘revenge porn’

Stop victim-blaming. It’s perverse

Suspect arrested in grisly murder of Klerksdorp teen

Zapiro needs to take a hard look in the mirror

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