The government has justified its military force as a measure to consolidate national unity and ensure safety, but at what cost to female citizens?
Posts tagged as “gender violence”
By Kerry Frizelle While I was lecturing, a female student arrived late*. As she made her way to a seat, another student cat-called her (a…
I am ashamed to be a South African man today. How have we fallen so far as a nation? From being celebrated globally as the…
When my elder daughter, now 17, decided in Grade 6 that she wanted to attend a school social, we had to have a long talk.…
By Esmeralda Sayagues Several South African universities have recently been rocked by student protests deploring the high incidence of campus rape and sexual violence. The…
To law falls the privilege of demarcating and controlling a particular territory as its own. That which it cannot, or will not, claim is pushed…
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…
Cost-benefit analyses are fairly central to mainstream economics. Even if one sets aside developments in economics of information or behaviour economics, which make room for…
“Please can I take this off you …?” Things get hot and heavy and you whisper this in a manner so low it is barely…
By Tracy Doig Four years ago today, 24-year-old Noxolo Nogwaza was raped and murdered in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni. The young mother of two was on her…