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Here’s what you did wrong, Jacob Zuma

Article Editorial - 16 Feb 2018

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

Like Banquo’s ghost, Khwezi will haunt Cyril

Article Kiri Rupiah - 26 Jan 2018

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

Ramaphosa tiptoes around Zuma’s removal

Article Matuma Letsoalo Author & Paddy Harper - 19 Jan 2018

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

Rape myths inflict more harm on victims

Article Palesa Lebitse - 5 Jan 2018

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

Faith can promote rape culture

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Dec 2017

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

ANC presidential hopefuls have used Khwezi as a political gimmick to curry favour

Article Shaazia Ebrahim - 11 Dec 2017

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

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This soldier will fight for JZ till the end

Article Niren Tolsi - 17 Nov 2017

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

Media must be rape activists, not bystanders

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Nov 2017

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

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ANC’s wishy-washy ‘race’ limps on

Article Eusebius McKaiser - 3 Nov 2017

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

Editorial: Victim-blaming for rape

Article Editorial - 27 Oct 2017

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

Khwezi’s tragedy is our disgrace

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 13 Oct 2017

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

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Why, a decade on, a new book on Zuma’s rape trial has finally hit home

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Oct 2017

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

Editorial: Desensitised to rape

Article Editorial - 22 Sep 2017

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

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Women’s Month just proves it: Our leaders are trash

Article Editorial - 11 Aug 2017

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

We need to reclaim the headlines

Analysis Sisonke Msimang - 22 Dec 2016

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

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