Gender

Healthy baby for Shoprite cashier who was assaulted while pregnant

Video of assault shocked SA

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Brief | 21 November 2019

Study shows targeted interventions can reduce gender violence

Results from a programme run in urban informal settlements in eThekwini look promising

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News | 30 October 2019

Family in Brakpan terrorised for laying rape charges

“They always break the door and enter with guns, pangas, golf clubs and sticks. They beat us”

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News | 28 October 2019

Thousands march in Gugulethu against gender-based violence

“Until we fix ourselves as men, then nothing will come right”

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News | 24 October 2019

“When we hear our neighbours screaming, we have an obligation”

Forum hears recommendations to fight gender-based violence

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News | 23 October 2019

Customer assaults pregnant Shoprite cashier

Video footage shows man hitting eight-months-pregnant Zimkhitha Xhalabile

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News | 2 October 2019

Constitutional Court to rule on “common purpose” in rape cases

Can an accused be convicted of rape for being part of a group with a common intent to rape?

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Law | 26 September 2019

The village where women can’t afford to report rape

Nearest police station is 120 kilometres away

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News | 23 September 2019

Women from shelters picket as Ramaphosa speaks

Movement calls for more funding for shelters for survivors of abuse

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Brief | 18 September 2019

Silent march against violence at the University of Johannesburg

Marchers demand better security for students

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Brief | 17 September 2019

“God take their penises away”

Kraaifontein women march in protest against violence against women

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Brief | 16 September 2019

Firefighters paint their faces black and blue

PE firefighters join the move against violence against women

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Brief | 10 September 2019

I can’t even let someone hold my kids on their lap, says rape survivor

Mother tells of successive rapes when she was a child

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Brief | 9 September 2019

Transgender activists parade in Uitenhage

“It is very difficult to be who we are”

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Brief | 5 September 2019

Uitenhage taxi drivers join protests against crimes against women

“Not in our taxi rank, not in our taxis, not in our homes, and not in our names”

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Brief | 4 September 2019

Incarcerated women tell NGO they are desperate for help

Conditions for women in prisons neglected during Women’s Month, says health and human rights organisation

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Opinion | 30 August 2019