The president says there is nothing abnormal about his security requirements at Nkandla given past experiences, including his wife’s rape.
Many men, thanks to social stigmas, are ashamed to report sexual hate crimes – but they are almost as common as they are against lesbians.
An Ethiopian teenager who says she was raped by seven men last August, now faces a possible sentence of death by stoning.
The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.
A lesbian rape survivor and community activist has told the Khayelitsha probe into policing how insensitive officers added to her ordeal.
Where is the "rape capital of the world"? Is it SA or the Democratic Republic of Congo? What does the phrase even mean? Africa Check investigates.
Named after the 23-year-old who was raped and killed in Delhi in 2012, the Nirbheek pistol has been designed for women. But it has drawn criticism.
Police have detained a group of men in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist in New Delhi.
The court case of the man accused of raping and killing his four-year-old niece, Jasmin Pretorius, has been postponed to January 13.
Dozens of people have grouped outside a court as a man appears for the rape and killing of his four-year-old niece.
Bhekisisa looks back at, and follows up on, some of the most popular and impactful stories of 2013.
The report about Ikhaya Loxolo, a home for the mentally disabled in the Eastern Cape, has sparked a dramatic response from government officials.
The fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi has emboldened survivors to speak out, family members say on the anniversary of the attack.
The country’s gender problems remain despite new laws and media efforts to highlight them.
A Somali court has handed down jail sentences to a woman who said she was raped, and to the journalists who reported her story.
Julius Malema has emerged as an unlikely feminist after a recent rally, but gender experts have slammed the political leader for being opportunistic.
Almost 10% of women in Britain have been raped, according to a recent lifestyle survey, writes Haroon Siddique.
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While Anene Booysen’s rape and murder caused an international outcry, Letty Wapad’s similar case went under-reported and almost unheard.
Johannes Kana has been formally charged with the rape and murder of Anene Booysen, according to media reports.
Anita Khanna is the director of the TriContinental Film Festival, which is showing at cinemas in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.
The term "corrective rape" is an injustice to the violence inflicted on black lesbians for their gender identity.
They have suffered the most in 20 years of killings, rape and displacement.
Cosatu has the right to continue with claims of rape against Zwelinzima Vavi if it feels it has enough evidence, according to the labour department.
The rape allegation that Zwelinzima Vavi has faced throws into sharp relief SA’s muddled conceptions of rape and morality, writes Verashni Pillay.
Numsa’s KwaZulu-Natal branch says it is fully behind Vavi, who is innocent until proven guilty despite public opinion.
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Sarah Britten and Haji Mohamed Dawjee talk about the FHM controversy and
the difficulty with rape jokes in SA.
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Egypt’s women increasingly at risk of rape and sexual assault as rights groups warn of a step up in attacks.
In "Don’t victimise rape victims" (May 31), Kwena Moloto argued that South Africans needed a "radical change of attitude regarding sex crimes".