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A tipping point on gender-based violence in South Africa?

By Alexandra | Published: February 18, 2013

TweetA number of recent articles have suggested that February 2013 will go down in history as the month when South Africa finally began an earnest fight against epidemic intimate partner and gender-based violence. Femicide is no rare occurrence in the country, but in the last three weeks two particularly brutal, high-profile murders have captured media [...]

Also tagged Anene Booysen, Gender Links, Gender-Based Violence, intimate partner violence, Sally Matthews, sexual violence, South Africa | Comments closed

What matters

By Chloe | Published: February 15, 2013

TweetHer name was Reeva Steenkamp, and she was allegedly shot by her boyfriend this week. That’s all that matters. It doesn’t matter that he’s an Olympic track star. It doesn’t matter that she was blonde and “leggy.” It doesn’t matter that she posed for “bikini clad, vamping photo spreads” or spoke out against rape. What [...]

Also tagged International, Violence Against Women | Comments closed