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...
#SandtonShutdown: Civil Society Pleads For Big Business To Intervene In The...
In the early hours of the morning, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in Sandton. The protesters were...
Three in four children experience violence, finds new UNICEF report
Violence against children can range from the extreme cases of physical and sexual violence to a slap from a parent or unwanted sexual advances...
Society’s hypocrisy in protecting men and their reputations
Celebrity Katlego Maboe is caught up in quite the scandal. The recent viral video of his extra-marital activities has really wrought consequences he may...
These three universities have been protesting the war on women’s bodies
The national conversation has only recently shifted toward talk about rape culture and violence on women's bodies. This was following the horrific murder of...
The role social workers play in fighting gender-based violence
In 2020, president Cyril Ramaphosa issued a national call for specialised units of social workers to deal with gender-based violence. This call arose from...
It’s Necessary To Watch Surviving R. Kelly
It should be impossible that R. Kelly survived the myriad allegations of abuse leveled against him. But he did. Twenty-five years later, his survivors...
From UJ: How we are transforming the university to respond to...
Issues of gender and sexuality have been strongly debated in South Africa’s new democracy. From the National Women’s Coalition (NWC) in the early 1990s...
Sex trafficking: the Cyntoia Brown case highlights a massive global problem
Sex trafficking is a global human rights crisis that has does not often receive widespread attention. That changed last week when the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown...
Our Mothers’ Warnings Will Never Be Enough
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Twenty-first birthdays in South Africa, while legally non-significant, often still carry much pomp and ceremony surrounding the idea of fully-fledged adulthood. Symbolic keys “to...
Concerned Rhodes academics speak out about #RhodesWar
A group of concerned academics at the University Still Known as Rhodes (USKAR) have issued a statement calling on other academics and intellectuals to...
People are raising funds for the mother who stabbed her daughter’s...
A crowdfunding initiative has been set up to raise funds for a woman who was arrested after she stabbed three men who were allegedly...
The fight against sexism and GBV must include migrant, refugee women
By Terri Maggott
On August 2 2019, numerous reports of violent femicides sent shockwaves through the nation. In the same week, the news of brutal...
Higher Education Minister Appoints Sexual Violence In Universities Task Team
Students have been consistently protesting the rampant sexual harassment and violence that takes place at institutions of higher learning. Hoping to address these concerns,...
Map of GBV shelters in South Africa
This is a list of GBV shelters in South Africa.
Read more: Here is a list of organisations helping to fight Gender-based violence in...
Zapiro needs to take a hard look in the mirror
Nine years after he first decided to use a rape metaphor to comment on the state of the nation, cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known...
In Pictures: Wits Protests Gender-Based Violence
Hundreds of Wits University students gathered at the Great Hall piazza to protest against gender-based violence and femicide. The protest is in response to...
#EECoverUp: Zackie Achmat Is Taking M&G To Press Ombudsman
Prominent activist Zackie Achmat said on Wednesday that he will be filing a complaint against the Mail & Guardian with the press ombudsman for...
It’s time to hold the state accountable for violence against women
With the exception of couple of men, about 50 women gathered at the Hlanganisa Institute for Development in Southern Africa (HiDSA) in Parktown on...
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...
