The murder of runner Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo highlights how pervasive fear forces women to constantly calculate safety, shrinking their access to public spaces, exercise,…
Nine women have been found dead in Ekurhuleni, yet political responses remain trapped in task teams and summits. It is time to dismantle the deeper structural systems fuelling…
As police investigate the deaths of nine women across Ekurhuleni, grieving families and activists call for decisive state action and systemic changes to curb the ongoing femicide…
Following the tragic murder of Elizabeth 'Tsontso' Moselakgomo and the discovery of nine bodies across Ekurhuleni, a Kempton Park resident reflects on the terrifying reality of…
A powerful reflection on the devastating surge of femicide and gender-based violence in South Africa, urging society to see victims as individuals rather than cold statistics.
Telling women where they cannot run, walk, or exist is not safety—it is containment. In the wake of recent murders in South Africa, we must confront the perpetrators and broken…
Living in constant anticipation of violence has become an exhausting norm for South African women. Addressing the femicide crisis requires structural accountability and…
South Africa continues to react to gender-based violence downstream, but ending femicide requires confronting its true root cause: entrenched gender inequality in our homes,…
He fought tooth and nail so that the transatlantic slave trade should not repeat itself anywhere, where our people faced brutal conditions and many lost their lives
A nationwide shutdown on 21 November demands GBVF be declared a National Disaster, confronting government inaction as the world’s leaders arrive
Advocacy group Women for Change argues that South Africa ‘cannot host the world’s most powerful leaders while a woman is killed every two-and-a-half hours’
It will take more than policy to change South Africans’ excessive use of alcohol; we all need to take part in the Sober Curious movement
I have just returned from the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In 2025, members of the…
Seven women are killed in the country each day and nearly six in 10 of such murders are at the hand of an intimate partner
The support systems that GBV survivors depend on are being damaged by cost cuts, making it harder for them to escape violence and seek justice
It is up to actors at all levels of society to rescue institutionalised prejudice that undermines the freedom and dignity of women and girls
We must recognise the intersectional issues that different communities face if we are to address gender-based violence adequately This content is restricted to registered users…
The British high commissioner to South Africa reflects on the value of the United Nations for the UK and South Africa to achieve shared objectives
In their exhibition ‘Bitches Brew’, three South African artists juggle good manners and the grotesque
Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
