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...
Equal Education and Doron Isaacs: Setting The Record Straight
As former employees of Equal Education (EE), who recently left our positions, we have been deeply troubled by the release of former High Court...
Gender Summit To Hold Government Accountable For Gender-Based Violence Failures
On August 1, thousands of womxn* marched in South Africa, under the banner of The Total Shutdown Movement. They demanded that the government take...
The Harsh Stigma of Sex Work In Glenwood, Durban
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...
#100MenMarch: Not Nearly Enough
Large crowds of men scare me. I just don't feel safe around men - particularly unfamiliar men. It's in large crowds of men that...
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...
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...
Public Employment Programmes Can Turn The GBV Tide
Communities and public employment programmes in particular, have a critical role to play in the fight against gender-based violence, writes PALESA MATABOGE.
This is...
Is hopelessness driving HIV in SA’s youth?
Why is HIV still the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 and 19 and how can we change this, asks Njabulo Mbanda.
It...
How The Government Is Ruining Its Own Plan To End Gender-Based...
NEWS ANALYSIS
The rape and murder of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana has pushed into the spotlight the government’s failure to deal with gender-based violence (GBV). The...
It’s time for a “Me Too” campaign for men
Tsipi Erann says she wants to see a "me too" campaign by men.
"Me too - I pressured a woman into sex when she first...
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...
Oxfam’s Admission of Sexual Abuse In Haiti Points To Deeply Entrenched...
The international NGO sector is a multibillion dollar industry and one vital to the survival, stabilisation and reconstruction of communities globally, but what happens...
#TotalShutDown in Durban: “I Am Here To Send A Strong Message”
On Wednesday scores of women and gender non-conforming people marched in the streets of Durban to the City Hall over violence against women and...
Meena Kandasamy’s novel is literary salvation for women abuse survivors
Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel When I Hit You is a wrenching story that straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction. Two reporters, Mishka Wazar...
BDS-SA Launched Investigation Into Desai Allegations, Boardmember Says
Update: The BDS-SA board received the findings of the investigation this weekend which cleared Desai of sexual harassment, board member Tisetso Magama said...
Gender Summit: We Need More Work Beyond ANC Politicking
The minister of social development Susan Shabangu stuttered over the pronunciation of LGBTQI. "Teach me," she said. The minister was addressing a crowd of...
Toxic Masculinity In Football Needs To Be Addressed
This weekend, the news and social media were awash with images of Kaizer Chiefs supporters storming onto the pitch of the Moses Mabhida Stadium....
Women Forward: A Gendered Look At SA Politics
Women Forward (WF) began as a grassroots movement on farmland, planted among women who were marginalised. Domestic workers, farm workers and women from rural...
Black Girlhood And The Unbearable Weight Of Knowing Too Much
Naledi Yaziyo explores a number of ways in which black girls are expected to grow up too fast and pay the price of knowing...
