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…
Posts tagged as “rape”
When I was a little girl, the thing I was most afraid of, more than anything, was something bad happening to my mother. Once, I…
In the last chapter of The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court, author Mmatshilo Motsei starts her concluding remarks by quoting Sello wa Loate: [w]e need…
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…
Rape is not something that can be avoided by good behaviour. Rape is not something that is brought about by a woman’s “bad” behaviour. Rape…
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…
This post is written from a position of deep respect. I have followed Charlene Smith’s writing and activism for years, and have nothing but admiration…
Is the time for South Africa to have the difficult discussion about rape finally here? Is it now time to do our utmost to provide…
By the time I was in matric three of my friends had told me they had been raped. Not by strangers in some dark alley…