By Sharika Regchand A 21-year-old man who allegedly raped a boy at a mosque in Copesville was on Monday granted bail of R1 000 by the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court. The man, who can’t be named because he has not yet pleaded to the charge, is alleged to have gone into the mosque toilet where he […]
BY NOMAHLUBI JORDAAN WARNING: Not for sensitive readers Shocking details of how Nicholas Ninow raped a seven-year-old girl at a Dros restaurant in Silverton emerged on Monday when he pleaded guilty in the Pretoria high court. Ninow, 21, disclosed what he did to the child when she opened the toilet door as he took drugs, and […]
Sara Roebuck When you are raped the authority to make decisions for yourself is removed. Your attacker reduces you to an object to be devoured, a thing discarded in an alley, a body to be left in a nightclub stockroom, a person to be thrown aside on a bedroom floor. More venomously, a woman to […]
Hell is empty And all the devils are here. Shakespeare’s famous line from The Tempest comes to mind as South Africa reels from another epidemic of violence by men against women. The most recent spate of killings and rape has sparked outrage in a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates. According to […]
“Hien” grew up in a mountainous region in northern Vietnam. It’s a 7 hour motorbike ride from the nearest city to reach her house: a bamboo hut on stilts. The hut is basic. This is where Hien, her husband and their 2 children live. Life is unbelievably hard. Being so far away from the nearest […]
By Corinne Redfern Sex work is legal in Bangladesh. So is child marriage. Now in an exclusive investigation, The Telegraph can reveal the two have become intrinsically linked There’s a circular bruise blossoming on the right hand side of 19-year-old Rupa Begum’s cheek, and she’s working hard to cover it. Gently, she smears pale concealer over her […]
Brian Sokutu Gender-based violence has reached crisis proportions, and ‘reactive slogans and media responses’ won’t fix it, an expert says. At least three women die at the hands of their partners daily, according to the latest statistics – showing gender-based violence (GBV) has reached crisis proportions in South Africa. According to Dr Nthabiseng Moleko of […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa was heckled when addressing protesters against gender-based violence outside Parliament. President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses protesters against gender-based violence outside of Parliament on 5 September 2019. He was accompanied by Minister of Human Settlements Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu and other officials. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN CAPE TOWN – President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation […]
ZELDA VENTER Pretoria – Tears ran down the faces of the Mooinooi couple while they were being gan-graped, minutes before they were both hung by their necks from a hook in the ceiling of a garden shed. This was the evidence of Moses Rakuba, who was there on the day Anisha and Joey van Niekerk […]
James Hockaday A study shows 64 per cent of teenage girls have experienced relationship abuse, but many were not aware of it (Picture: Getty Images/Love Respect/Women’s Aid) Women’s Aid has launched a website to help teenage girls after a study revealed nearly two-thirds of them had been in abusive relationships. The charity’s new #LoveRespect project […]