Let’s be clear, sexual harassment, whether physical or verbal, is an unwanted act that violates a person’s dignity. When such an allegation is made, the focus of attention should be on the victim, and their ...
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About 40% of the 6 424 murders between April and June this year were gun-related, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced when he released crime statistics. Cele said it was shown that firearms were three times more ...
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Today, 16 August 2022, marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest episodes of violence in South Africa since the end of the Apartheid in 1994: the Marikana Massacre. In the early days of ...
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This year, the commemoration of womxn’s month brings about a bag of mixed feelings. Some strides have been made towards protecting and safeguarding womxn’s rights, security and bodily integrity, however, the reality on the ground ...
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Lip-service celebration of women in present-day South Africa, while they remain marginalized and often disenfranchised and disempowered is a disservice to the 20 000 women in their diversity, who bravely marched in unison to the State ...
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Our communities are the site of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide. When these cases occur, it is communities that reel from such incidents and victims and perpetrators are often members of the community, ...
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Gender-based violence in South Africa is a scourge. At the heart of it is the impact of imbalanced power relations at individual and societal levels and inequities that are entrenched in family, communal and social ...
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