Gender
Abortions: women don’t know where to go
Right to terminate pregnancy is limited by poor information
Opinion | 29 January 2018
Women wait for work on the side of the road
“We cannot give up because we have children that depend on us.”
News | 19 January 2018
Seven years on, Zuma’s promise of free sanitary pads has not been kept
But the Department of Women has a plan
News | 18 January 2018
The forgotten mining town where rape is “normal”
Women and children bear the brunt of lawlessness at Durban Deep
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 16 January 2018
“We want to create intolerance of violence”
Activists march against gender based violence in Buffalo City townships
Brief | 3 November 2017
Girl alleged principal hit her after epileptic fit
A 17-year-old learner says she was slapped, then beaten a few days later by a security guard at her school
News | 2 November 2017
Nohle drank steel wool and brandy to induce an abortion
How stigma drives an underground industry
News | 26 October 2017
Court declares land tenure act invalid
Parliament told to fix section which discriminates against women
Law | 27 September 2017
Married transgender people can change their official sex, court finds
Home Affairs’ approach is “coloured by the persisting influence of the religious and social prejudice against the recognition of same-sex unions” says judge
Law | 8 September 2017