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Posted inGender violence, News/Politics

The horror of how our children die, I see it every day

Karen Milford by Karen Milford 14 March 201614 March 2016

Last week we heard of a teenager who went missing while running with her dog and family in Cape Town and was found murdered a few hours later. It’s a terrible story, the stuff of every parent’s absolute worst nightmare. We have all briefly lost sight of our children in a supermarket, at the park, […]

Posted inEquality, Gender violence, News/Politics

Men will never stop hurting us

Louise Ferreira by Louise Ferreira 14 March 201631 March 2016

As a child, I thought that grownups weren’t afraid of anything. They killed spiders. They didn’t believe in monsters and ghosts. They weren’t scared of dogs or the dark or the deep end of the swimming pool. Of all the disappointing discoveries of adulthood, the realisation that grownups are in fact very frightened very often […]

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