The rise in crime levels is reduced to single-figures when compared with stats for 2019
The second part of an edited extract from Femicide in South Africa (Kwela) by Nechama Brodie lists the names of black lesbians who were murdered, allegedly because of their sexual orientation
The former president was admonished by a male judge during his trial for rape and responded meekly
The Matatiele municipality has attempted to justify why it pays a full salary to an ANC councillor convicted of raping a party volunteer
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In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured
“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a statement released in March last year. These appalling figures are just one of the many consequences of gender-based violence and abuse, namely domestic abuse, which is defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner
The learner was 13 when the alleged rapes started, and they continued for two years until she asked to be moved to another school
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Investigation finds extensive abuse of power by men allegedly working at organisations such as the World Health Organisation
Boikagong Centre in Mahikeng has been closed for almost two years because it did not meet safety requirements. The discarded children say they want a safe place to learn, but instead endure rape and other violence
Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.
This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets from 2018 to 2020. It’s also a tribute to the faceless, nameless women whose stories remain untold.
South African authorities were poised to add rape charges to those faced by Bushiri in mid-November when he skipped bail and the border to return to Malawi
Prosecutors’ extradition request details how Bushiri allegedly raped women as young as 17
Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour
Angie Motshekga was speaking to learners in a secondary school in Pretoria
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
In the frantic pursuit of patriarchal ideas of manhood, boys often lose their ability to love — this paves the way for cruelty and violence
American Skin is drowned by its own ambitions, which are at odds with the moment it seeks to reckon with
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Brigadier Sifiso Cele denies the rape allegations, saying that they are part of a smear campaign and that criminal charges should have been opened if the accusations were true
Despite 6 300 ANC cadres working in government, the party’s integrity committee has done little to deal with its accused members
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How many times should we be outraged before real action is taken to prevent, and not just address, the scourge of sexual abuse in schools?
An internal report on sexual offences at a military academy says the defence force failed a deceased rape victim and has called for an internal investigation
If a man has the temerity to shoot a woman inside a police station, in front of law enforcement officers, then the country has an even bigger GBV problem than it thinks.
The party’s response to journalists and those who speak against them reveal a consistent pattern of misogyny
What chance do we have of tackling the deeper psychological and societal problems that drive violence against women if we cannot even do the basics?
Backlogs, booze, testicular cancer — all factors blamed for the apparent ineptitude or unwillingness to tackle a pandemic that is silently killing women all over the country.
The conflation of human rights violations and a pandemic leave the most vulnerable marginalised. Equitable and democratic societies are needed to fight against this
After accusing the Afrobeats superstar of rape, Seyitan Babatayo was arrested
The problem is that men see a break-up as a challenge to their masculinity and would rather get even than get over it
Aviwe Wellem’s violent death shook a village in the Eastern Cape, but the DNA results are still not back and no one has been arrested.
It has been easier to get someone arrested for breaking lockdown regulations than to get the authorities to respond to calls from women who are being beaten to death