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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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#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

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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

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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"

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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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