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    “Conspiracy Of Silence” Happening Around The Rohingya Muslims

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    After last year's condemnation around the violence which was being committed against the Rohingya Muslims, the world seems to have gone silent once more...

    Toxic Masculinity In Football Needs To Be Addressed

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    This weekend, the news and social media were awash with images of Kaizer Chiefs supporters storming onto the pitch of the Moses Mabhida Stadium....

    #RUReferenceList And The Fight Against Rape Culture Still Wages On

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    Two years after the fight against patriarchy, misogyny, and rape culture at universities made headlines, the battle still rages on. Those survivors at Rhodes...

    Start Letting Us Talk: Walking In Protest Against Campus Rape Culture

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    "Show me rape-culture" - this is one of thousands of comments we have heard from students on campus. These comments are quite disheartening when...

    Memory Banda On The Struggle Of The Girl Child In Malawi

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    There is fire in the eyes of Memory Banda when she talks about girls rights in her home country of Malawi. The 22-year-old has...

    The Harsh Stigma of Sex Work In Glenwood, Durban

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    It's a scorching hot Tuesday afternoon and ladies are out on the streets working. It's a business day as usual for them and the...

    Oxfam’s Admission of Sexual Abuse In Haiti Points To Deeply Entrenched...

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    The international NGO sector is a multibillion dollar industry and one vital to the survival, stabilisation and reconstruction of communities globally, but what happens...

    Taxify Terror: “I am now living in fear because the driver...

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    Taxify SA has heavily criticised following several reports of misconduct by its drivers. Nomonde Siziba*, 22, from Cape Town is one of the women...

    Understanding Consent – an explainer

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    We have a murky understanding of consent. This is partly why there was explosion of responses to the Grace/ Aziz Ansari incident that took place...

    Why the Grace/Aziz Ansari incident is so relatable to conversations around...

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    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....

    The French anti #MeToo mocked and trivialised women

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    "We believe that the freedom to say "no" to a sexual proposition cannot exist without the freedom to bother." - 100 French women responding...

    Justice for Siam Lee: We must defend her from victim-blaming

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    There are bodies deemed valuable and bodies deemed disposable, with the factors of race, gender, sexuality and ability playing a role in deciding between...

    Safety concerns mount as thousands flock to Durban beaches

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    Thousands of people have descended on the city of Durban for the festive season, with many people taking advantage of the sunny weather to...

    Concerned Rhodes academics speak out about #RhodesWar

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    A group of concerned academics at the University Still Known as Rhodes (USKAR) have issued a statement calling on other academics and intellectuals to...

    “My uncle is an animal, and I am not his only...

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    The December holidays are a time for family reunions but for some people this is a time when they are forced to relive past...

    We’re sick of ANC presidential hopefuls using Khwezi as a political...

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    It’s a sad day in South African politics when African National Congress presidential hopefuls resort to evoking the trial of Fezekile “Khwezi” Kuzwayo as...

    South Africa’s #MeToo gap: No accountability for high-profile men

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    The #MeToo movement began on our timelines - then became tangible as scores of high-profile American men are being ousted and fired for their...

    Six SA organisations fighting gender-based violence

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    Gender-based violence is a mammoth problem in South Africa, but there are small organisations all around South Africa working tirelessly to tackle it. At...

    Ukuthwala: the sex trafficking scandal devastating rural South Africa

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    “Back home in the Eastern Cape, ukuthwala is normal and has always been, so long as one has the means to pay lobola and...

    How inadequate services and untrained staff re-victimise sexual violence survivors

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    On Tuesday morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) officially launched a new report which looked at the critical gaps which exist in the provision of...