Is better regulation the way to make taxis safer for women?
Reports of several women being attacked and raped on taxis this year have revived conversations about the need to make the industry safer. These...
How can we prevent sexual violence in taxis and public spaces?
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world. Harassment and sexual violence towards women using public transport are...
Victims of Sexual Violence in Sudan Deserve Justice
COMMENT
Today, as we commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we demand accountability for sexual crimes committed in Sudan,...
#HoeIsLife is sexual freedom like you’ve never seen it before
Society hates when *womxn have power, especially over our sexuality and our bodies. Patriarchy determines the terms and conditions of sex for womxn. When...
Pretoria Shutdown As Women And GNC People March Against GBV
On Wednesday, thousands of women and gender-nonconforming people took to the streets around Southern Africa. They were marching against the scourge of gender-based violence...
Slain Zolile Khumalo’s Family Verbally Assaulted Outside Court As Her Alleged...
Slain student Zolile Khumalo's family is concerned about their safety after a man believed to be her killer Thabani Mzolo's relative allegedly insulted them...
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....
In Pictures: The #TotalShutdown March In Pretoria
Spirits were heightened as womxn* gathered at the old Putco depot in Pretoria on Wednesday before the Total Shutdown march began. We were singing...
Murder of Johannesburg sex workers shows why South Africa must urgently...
The decomposed bodies of six women, four of whom were identified as sex workers, were recently discovered at a panel beating factory in Johannesburg....
South African film wants to end the silence around date rape
Cut-Out Girls is a play-turned-feature-film project by Cape Town art students from ACT Cape Town, aimed at raising awareness about rape, date rape, and...
#SafeTaxisNow march in Soweto is not the end in the fight...
A group of women, children, and men gathered outside Bara Taxi Rank on Saturday, 24 June to disrupt the streets of Soweto. “Our streets!...
Would Suspending Freedoms Help To End Gender-Based Violence?
NEWS ANALYSIS
“Violence against women has become more than a national crisis. It is a crime against our common humanity,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa during...
Women’s Organisations In South Africa Need Better Funding
Funding is perhaps the single biggest challenge facing women's shelters and anti-gender-based violence organisations in the country. The small amount of money government allocates...
Why the Grace/Aziz Ansari incident is so relatable to conversations around...
Navigating the dating world as a woman in a patriarchal world is like playing Russian roulette, you never know how it's going to go....
Start Letting Us Talk: Walking In Protest Against Campus Rape Culture
"Show me rape-culture" - this is one of thousands of comments we have heard from students on campus. These comments are quite disheartening when...
Asijiki Coalition: Decriminalise Sex To End Workers’ Agony
"Sex workers are being persecuted everywhere for doing the only work that can help them make ends meet. Decriminalisation would not only help them...
Women say Booysens police station is not taking rape cases seriously
On Thursday night, the Soul City Institute and the Soweto Women’s Forum held a vigil outside the Booysens Police Station to draw attention to...
7 non-fiction book releases to add to your TBR
As the year draws to a close, readers can usually expect the release of some really great non-fiction books. That’s definitely the situation with...
Believing Survivors Of Sexual Violence
When someone comes forward with an allegation of sexual assault, harassment, or rape, we as a society need to believe them from the outset....
Did the Minister of Women seriously victim-blame Karabo Mokoena?
Minister of Women in the Presidency, Susan Shabangu, said on Saturday that Karabo Mokoena, who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Sandile Mantsoe, was...
