Rape
Sexual offences courts’ regulations finally gazetted
Date for implementation still to be set
Brief | 6 February 2020
Here’s how the common purpose rule now applies to gang rape
“The court must not be implicated in perpetuating patriarchy and rape culture”
Law | 17 December 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”
News | 28 October 2019
Thousands march in Gugulethu against gender-based violence
“Until we fix ourselves as men, then nothing will come right”
News | 24 October 2019
“No one was going to believe me” says rape survivior
Eastern Cape women struggle with prosecution of rapists
News | 8 August 2019
“I want all my rapists to be arrested”
Rape survivor says the police have failed her time and again
News | 20 February 2019
Child rape survivors left without counselling
Mental health care a “lottery” for survivors of sexual violence
By Elsabé Brits
News | 28 November 2018
Rhodes University shut down after student takes her own life
Students and staff demand action against gender-based violence on campus
Brief | 7 August 2018
Raped at 10, assaulted at 15, then harassed in the police station while laying charges
Klapmuts teenager’s grim story
News | 10 April 2018