It might placate the gender wars if a reconciliatory approach to healing is adopted
A court ruling has lifted the time limit on reporting sexual assault. Prior to the ruling, we asked survivors how such a ruling would impact them.
Slipping a condom off during sex without partner’s consent is disrespectful and dangerous
In Diepsloot, Bhekisisa’s Vimba! app is helping rape survivors access life-saving care and treatment.
Eight men and women may change the law and pave the way to justice and healing for thousands.
The Daily Vox spoke to young people at taxi ranks in Johannesburg to find out how they think this could be prevented.
Students tell their stories of how they were violated by fellow students, how they dealt with it and how the institution responded.
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.
Studies show that there is a strong link between sexual violence and alcohol abuse. Mia Malan explains.
Every week on the radio and in the newspapers it was the same names and faces.
A national policy on sexual assault has been in draft form for years. Now, the country now has the chance to put survivors of sexual violence first.
The public needs to know that it can take many forms and responses to it can differ widely.
Refugee women and girls fearing sexual violence are taking matters into their own hands.
Rape and physical abuse rates more than double those reported in national studies have been recorded in Diepsloot in northern Johannesburg
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Bhekisisa is launching a free gender-based violence helpline in Diepsloot
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Bhekisisa is launching a free gender-based violence helpline in Diepsloot
Read an excerpt from the award-winning story that kick-started a campaign to link survivors of rape and gender-based violence to care.
Read an excerpt from the award-winning story that kick-started a campaign to link survivors of rape and gender-based violence to care.
Additional funding has saved government’s Thuthuzela Care Centres at the eleventh hour but poorly performing facilities may still close.
‘One-stop’ government centres face loss of important psychological help as international funding dries up
Many women are not aware that HIV can be prevented after rape
As South Africa marks the anniversary of the massacre, a new study reveals how women’s bodies are a battleground in the country’s platinum belt
Many predators target women and children, and they aren’t defined by race, income or geography. It’s a shameful phenomenon, writes Tinyiko Maluleke.
Currently, victims reporting a rape to police must not only demonstrate that they verbally declined sex but also that they physically resisted.
Bemba’s MLC troops helped put down an attempted coup in neighbouring CAR, in months-long campaign of horrific abuses against civilian population.
An ongoing rape scandal is casting a dark cloud over an occasion usually reserved for paying tribute to the ‘Blue Helmets’.
Discriminatory myths and fables about rape and race are inextricably linked in South Africa, writes Helen Moffett.
The attack on a Dalit student in Kerala has sparked national outrage and raised questions about the position of women in a patriarchal society.
Survivors of sexual violence are unhappy with universities’ policies and actions, and researchers say under-reporting is part of the problem.
Abused women from war-torn countries who have fled to SA for safety often face more maltreatment here.
It is very clear that the issue of rape needs serious attention. If the protesters achieve that, it will be a step forward.
I support outing the list of alleged rapists at Rhodes, because what other recourse is there for victims, writes Pontsho Pilane.