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#BhekisisaDiaries: How GBV creeps into any South African news story

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January 30, 2023

Rachel Mashego sits in the home her ex-partner burnt down with their 5-year-old son, Tokelo, still inside. Tokelo died seven days after the incident. (Dylan Bush)

As journalists working in South Africa, it’s impossible to escape reporting on gender-based violence.

But sometimes even when we don’t set out to cover violence against women, the stories still seem to go that way anyway.

Go behind the scenes of some of South Africa’s most harrowing stories with Joan van Dyk and Dylan Bush.

Dylan Bush

Dylan Bush was a health journalist at Bhekisisa from February 2016 to September 2023.

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