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Research shows that starting sex education at a young age can decrease the number of gender-based violence cases and teenage pregnancies. (Oupa Nkosi)
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM OF NO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN

The quiet violence of inaction — we need to do better on gender-based violence

The only long-term solution to ending violence against women and children lies in funded, broadscale, multi-tier and multi-dimensional social education and reform efforts

  • Jarred Martin
3 min read
A member of SAPS shoots rubber bullets to disperse a crowd looting outside a warehouse storing alcohol in Durban on July 16, 2021, after protestors clashed with police following a week of unrest in South Africa. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)
CHIEF ALBERT LUTHULI

We are angry. We are anxious.We are traumatised.

We fought for freedom, for autonomy. Now we are traumatised. Our country has allowed its majority to live in conditions that the rich would not accept for their dogs

  • Daniel den Hollander
6 min read