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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

State, private sector launch gender-based violence fund

Funded by the private sector, the government will be able to ‘scale up’ initiatives against this second pandemic

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
The lived reality for women in South Africa is they get turned away at our police stations. They are told that domestic violence is a family matter. They are sent from one office to another. If they do actually get someone willing to open their case, the case files disappear into delay
AFRICAN UNION CONVENTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Yet another treaty aims to protect African women. But how will it be enforced?

Cyril Ramaphosa, chair of the African Union, is advocating for this treaty but states on the continent are reluctant to ratify such contracts and victims face serious problems in…

  • Nokukhanya Farisè
  • Tanveer Rashid Jeewa
8 min read
More than 26 000 cases of child abuse and neglect were reported in the 2024-25 financial year
CHILD ABUSE

​Child abuse can be curbed if the will to keep our children safe is tangibly realised

South Africa is on its way to being a pathfinder country in the realm of preventing violence towards children – but more can and needs to be done.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM

Say what? Presidency celebrates 16 years of ‘raising gender-based violence’

Is government committed to fighting for or against women? A mistake in a press release for 16 days of activism is revealing, writes Verashni Pillay.

  • Verashni Pillay
4 min read
CHILDREN AND

Maharaj for minister of propaganda

A restructured Cabinet is on the cards, with a new information ministry to clean up Jacob Zuma’s image and Baleka Mbete as second deputy president.

  • Mmanaledi Mataboge
11 min read
Are more protests
CHILDREN AND

Comment: Rape, murder and indifference

The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.

  • Mbuyiselo Botha
  • Czerina Patel
  • Dean Peacock
6 min read
The proposed equality legislation just duplicates functions from other laws, and offers nothing new, writes Lisa Vetten.
CHILDREN AND

Gender Bill fails to offer women anything new

The proposed equality legislation just duplicates functions from other laws, and offers nothing new, writes Lisa Vetten.

  • Lisa Vetten
5 min read
CHILDREN AND

Opinion: Women’s Month and the department of woe

From bloated salaries to floods of statements once a year, Verashni Pillay despairs of the department of women, children and people with disabilities.

  • Verashni Pillay
4 min read
Women
CHILDREN AND

Report shows corruption within women and children department

Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have been highlighted in a secret report on the women, children and people with disabilities department.

  • Sapa
1 min read
Xingwana ‘behaved like a naughty child’ on SAA flight
CHILDREN AND

Lulu Xingwana strikes out at SAA tirade claims

Women Minister Lulu Xingwana has dismissed a "sensational hot air" report that she demanded to be upgraded on a flight from Accra, Ghana.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
CHILDREN AND

Government backs miniskirt march against assault

Minister of Women Lulu Xingwana will participate in Friday’s march to protest against assaults on women wearing miniskirts.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
ANC WOMEN S LEAGUE

ANC Women’s League condemns taxi rank assault

A government department and ANC Women’s League have added their voices to condemning the harassment of two teenagers at the Noord Street taxi rank.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Keep child rape suspects in jail
CHILD ABUSE

Keep child rape suspects in jail, says Xingwana

Those charged with rape and murder of children should not get bail, says Lulu Xingwana, the Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read