BDS-SA Respond To Desai Allegations
Boycott Divestment And Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) has responded to the sexual harassment and indecent assault allegations levelled against co-founder Muhammed Desai.
The Daily...
Book Extract – Stellenbosch: Murder Town Two Decades of Shocking Crimes
Stellenbosch is world renowned for its wine, gorgeous scenery, and beautiful people. It’s the home of students working towards their future, successful businessmen and...
Five Facts: Femicide In South Africa
The murder of a university student in South Africa has led to national soulsearching and debate over violence against women. Africa Check summarises the...
Gender-Based Violence victims are #NotJustANumber
With an additional 9556 people having had reported rape between July 1 2021 to September 20 2021, South Africa still remains the destination of...
Mishka Hoosen at Time of the Writer 2016
This year's Time of the Writer festival has already served up fascinating conversations about what exactly knowledge is, and how we relate to books....
If you think you may be part of #NotAllMen, read this
During a new year's eve celebration in Bangalore, India, police reported evidence of widespread sexual assault having taken place, with many women saying they...
In Pictures: The #SandtonShutdown Protest Against Gender-Based Violence And Femicide
On Friday, hundreds of people marched to Sandton, the business hub of the country, to protest gender-based violence and femicide, inspired by the news...
Government red tape is actually sticky tape that never ends
Accessing government funds when existing as a NGO is like trying to jog in quicksand. In recent interviews with The Daily Vox, two organisations...
UCT SRC suspends two members over sexual offence allegations
On Wednesday the University of Cape Town (UCT) Student Representative Council (SRC) informed the UCT community that it had suspended two of its members...
Six reasons why you shouldn’t bother watching Thirteen Reasons Why
At the end of March, Netflix released the series adaptation of the popular young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why to much enthusiasm. Even though...
After the Bo-Kaap video, how do we support survivors of gender-based...
A viral video uploaded to YouTube in which a woman details allegations of paedophillia against her paternal grandfather has left many of us...
National Shutdown Planned Against Gender-Based Violence
An organisation of feminist and gender activists is calling for a Total Shutdown and Intersectional Women's March Against Gender-based Violence on August 1. It...
Total Shutdown Organisers: We Will Not Be Intimidated Or Distracted
The Total Shutdown organisers welcome that the statement issued by the office of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), announcing...
The Gender Summit Failed To Impress
President Cyril Ramaphosa made some lofty promises in his address at the National Gender Summit held in Pretoria on November 1. Gender activists, civil society...
Patriarchs: Keep Your Noses Out Of My Panties!
Dear men and boys,
Here's some good news - all of you men who measure less than 15cm will get a special bursary to study...
070707: Ten years on and the struggle against homophobic hate crimes...
On July 7 2007 two lesbian *womxn - Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa were murdered in Meadowlands, Soweto. This was not the first hate...
Drawing the line between corporal punishment and abuse in parenting
UPDATE: The Constitutional Court upholds a judgment which says spanking your child is illegal.
al.UPDATE: On 19 October 2017, a judge in the Johannesburg High...
We need #SafeTaxisNow because women are sick of harassment at taxi...
Millions of women in South Africa use taxis to commute daily. According to Action Aid SA, 69% of women who use taxis say they...
A new report says the Kenyan government is failing victims of...
The 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya left hundreds of people scarred and years later, the government has done very little to assist those affected....
Rape is endemic in South Africa. Why the ANC government keeps...
Rape in South Africa is systemic and endemic. The country’s annual police crime statistics confirm this. There were 42,289 rapes reported in 2019/2020, as...
