Australian Football League star Stephen Milne has been charged with the rape of a 19-year-old woman, nine years after the original investigation.
A man has been arrested in Pretoria for several rapes, murders and armed robberies in the Daantjie area outside Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
The Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned the verdicts and sentences given in two cases by a Limpopo judge to two convicted rapists, reports Beeld.
A radical change of attitude is needed among South Africans regarding sex crimes, writes Kwena Moloto.
An emotional Annie Lennox called on South Africans to do more to fight the scourge of violence against women and children.
Without the government’s will to curb gender violence, our rape statistics will continue to be the worst in the world.
In a country where most rape cases go unreported, a silent protest at five university campuses around South Africa found a new voice against the scourge.
Child rights activists say the rape of a five-year-old girl is the latest case in which India’s police have failed to act on a missing child report.
A tourism industry survey in India has shown tourists are shunning travel there over sexual assault fears, contradicting the state’s rosy picture.
Rape has become an accepted form of punishment for those in prison. Civil society groups say correctional services is doing nothing to change that.
Angelina Jolie has gone on a visit to the DRC in a bid to encourage world powers to do more to tackle rape and sexual assault in war zones.
It is now 19 years later, and those found breaking the law are mostly under 30. So, in which way did apartheid play a role?
The main accused in the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in December has hanged himself in jail while in solitary confinement.
It has been almost 30 years since Mbuyiselo Botha’s brother committed rape. He did not have a clue about what rape did to its survivors.
‘Baby bins’ can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.
A Morocco law that allows a rapist to escape prison by marrying his victim is being amended by the kingdom’s Parliament.
Women and children should not have to face violence or rape anywhere in South Africa, says President Jacob Zuma.
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Studies show that men who themselves are victims are more likely to abuse women
King Goodwill Zwelithini has decried levels of rape in KwaZulu-Natal and the country.
Access control has been strict at the Bredasdorp Magistrate’s Court ahead of the appearance of Anene Booysen’s alleged killers.
Rape in rural areas is feared to be dramatically under-reported. We headed to villages in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Free State to find out why.
The solution lays in addressing ‘how we raise our boys’ and "how we equip parents to be parents". But there’s a long way to go.
A campaign to combat underage drinking has been condemned by activist organisations for depicting rape survivors in a guilty light.
While India raged, South Africa’s response to Anene’s rape has been muted by comparison. Why? This is the first of a five-part series on rape.
Going by the conviction rates, there is a mere one-in-10 chance that the men accused of the rape and murder of Anene Booysen will be convicted.
The outcry over the past week is enough evidence that SA is fed up with the scourge of rape, and the country needs more than the criticism of rapists.
Suggestions that the way to end sexism and rape is to have a better, more ethical patriarchy is lamentably divorced from reality, writes Chris Roper.
Reopening courts that deal specifically with sexual offences is proof that there is hope for the criminal justice system, activists say.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane questions how effective "manning up" is as a solution to rape.
Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral service of Anene Booysen, whose gruesome gang-rape and murder has shocked the nation.
Jay Naidoo calls on South Africans to take responsibility for the violation and abuse of women.
South African media has reacted with anger over the gang-rape and mutilation of Bredasdorp teenager Anene Booysen.