Our country has a duty to ensure women’s rights are protected here and in the region
A new film forces us to examine the background to crimes associated with poverty and deprivation
The steakhouse franchise group has confirmed the incident and says it is in contact with the family while the police investigate
Khensani Maseko is alleged to have taken her own life as a result of a rape
Hundreds of women took over the streets of Tshwane to march against gender-based violence on Wednesday
India’s top court on Monday upheld death sentences for three men convicted over the notorious 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman
The ruling follows a Johannesburg High Court case brought by eight men and women last year
Sex workers tell of being tortured, including being beaten with sjamboks.
Sonke Gender Justice’s Ariane Nevin explains the difference between rape and compelled rape and how the law treats it.
Almost five months after Jennifer Ferguson publicly accused soccer boss Danny Jordaan of sexually assaulting her, she has laid a charge of rape
In the early 21st century, millennial Indian women launched a radically new kind of feminist politics that had not been seen before.
Breaking the silence on sexual violation is powerful but how we do it is another question
Pastors who use biblical texts to justify what is ‘natural’ perpetuate gender violence
The law is on the side of men. It doesn’t reflect the real world of tears, torn panties and scepticism
‘Speaking out against power and its abuses can lead to a great deal more abuse being directed at the accuser’
The women’s allegations against the 65-year-old movie mogul were made in an bombshell expose published by the New Yorker on Tuesday.
Unless the middle management at Nelson Mandela University changes, poor, black women students will remain threatened
The case of the Eastern Cape mother who allegedly killed her daughter’s rapist has been struck off the roll.
In recent years, a new and assertive feminist movement has emerged and attacks on the president have become common cause
After a Facebook post called attention to the plight of two students, CCTV footage circulated online is helping police in the investigation.
A female student was raped and another stabbed last night at a computer lab at the Second Avenue campus in Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth.
Perhaps we as a society are accustomed to men playing the role of aggressor and predator, because we have witnessed it time and again
Men, usually bosses, prey on fresh young lawyers who need to do their articles to qualify
In a new book, Redi Tlhabi reveals the woman behind the pseudonym and the price she paid for pursuing justice after accusing Jacob Zuma of rape.
The alleged killing of a man who raped her daughter reveals a history of abuse and alcohol
Health-e News has started an SMS platform where survivors, particularly in rural areas, can receive professional counselling.
She was charged with murder and attempted murder, but South Africans are pitching in to fund the ‘lionmama’s’ legal fees.
Fikile Mbabalula, Bathabile Dlamini, Mduduzi Manana. They all served in same cabinet – where
two ends of a
vicious circle meet.
In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.
In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.
An anti-rape campaigner says metro police officers pulled her off the N1 and gang-raped her
The spotlight is currently on the physical and sexual violence that women experience daily in South Africa.