SA has already warmed at a rate twice the global average, and climate change is making droughts in South Africa more extreme and more frequent

Tintswalo Hospital in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga, is somewhat run down and in need of a coat of paint. From the outside there is little to suggest the 450-bed government hospital is…

For many of us working in the gender-based violence sector, the defining images of 2006 will be those from the Jacob Zuma rape trial: headlines in newspapers promising details of…

There are some very important aspects of the Civil Unions Bill that have been ignored in the public debate about the proposed legislation. If it is passed into law, it will have…

On March 25, three organisations representing the rights of women, particularly those affected by gender-based violence, applied to the high court to intervene urgently in the…

The Choice on the Termination of Pregnancy Act has survived yet another challenge by the "pro-life" movement, this time concerning the right of minors to terminate their…