Rape Culture

In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture

Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just 340 guilty verdicts from 3952cases: a new study shows how the dreadful reality of how the system is failing victims of this ‘priority crime’

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