Rememberkhwezi

He came to power as a compromised figure. He survived a rape trial. He factionalised the ANC and under his watch, SOEs reached a point of implosion

Even in death, the woman many chose to forget was used as a pawn in a political game

The ANC president’s conciliatory approach to his predecessor doesn’t please all his supporters

Sexual assault survivors are silenced by societal prejudice, lack of support from their community or family, secondary trauma and rape myths.

Pastors who use biblical texts to justify what is ‘natural’ perpetuate gender violence

The ANC national conference is looming, and presidential candidates have been using every cheap trick in the book to win at Nasrec.

Kebby Maphatsoe, wary of Western ‘agents’, derides Ramaphosa as the white people’s darling

It’s not enough to report dispassionately on sexual predation. We have to lobby where the law fails

The hopefuls all bury their individuality to be slaves to party dogma

‘Speaking out against power and its abuses can lead to a great deal more abuse being directed at the accuser’

Redi Tlhabi’s book is an engrossing insight into how South African society conspired to throw the president’s accuser to the wolves

In recent years, a new and assertive feminist movement has emerged and attacks on the president have become common cause

Perhaps we as a society are accustomed to men playing the role of aggressor and predator, because we have witnessed it time and again

The men who lead us are complicit in the abuse of women in South Africa

Every week on the radio and in the newspapers it was the same names and faces.