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Eritrean women at a refugee camp in Sudan. Experts say kidnapping has become big business along the Eritrean border.

Captured, raped, ransomed: The kidnappers preying on teenagers far from home

Sally Hayden -
A former child soldier at the rehabilitation centre in Gulu

‘Now people call me a killer’: Abducted at nine to be...

Samuel Okiror -
Forensic nurse Beatrice Mongale demonstrates how child survivors of sexual violence often use dolls to describe their experience at the Kgomotso Care Centre in Boitekong township in Rustenburg.

This is why some rapists will never face justice

Amir Shroufi -
Study: How and where you're most likely to get raped

Study: How and where you’re most likely to get raped

Dylan Bush and Mia Malan -
Protestors from the One in Nine Campaign stage a demonstration. Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said in 2014 that he ‘believed the Zuma trial was not about finding the truth" but about story telling.

Khwezi speaks: ‘I did not do it to win. I was...

Redi Tlhabi -
The community of Mbyo

‘My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we...

Amandas Ong -
South Africa is a country of broken systems. Insufficient health resources are preventing traumatised rape victims from turning to violence themselves

‘Manana will at best get a suspended sentence or a fine’

Mia Malan -
A new study by the South African Medical Research Council reviewed 3952 rape cases. Only 340 ended in a conviction.

[EXCLUSIVE] If you were raped, here are your chances of finding...

Mia Malan -
Some rape cases reported to the police took two years to get to court.

Rape and (in)justice: 340 guilty verdicts from 3952 cases

Mia Malan -
Are sex workers forced into their jobs?

Are sex workers forced into their jobs?

Dylan Bush -
Graffiti on a wall in Diepsloot where a penis is likened to an AK47. The Sonke Change found that men are about three times more likely to rape or beat a woman if they are a problem drinker.

Nine factors that make a man more likely to rape or...

Mia Malan -
|A recent study in Diepsloot in northern Johannesburg shows that 56% of a sample of 2600 men have raped or beaten a woman. Most said they have done so more than once. (Delwyn Verasamy

‘I will rape them personally, those drunkard women in the short...

Mia Malan -
Yumna Moosa says senior doctors threatened her and all the health professions council did was ask what she did to deserve it.

A cautionary tale to young doctors looking to take on medicine’s...

Yumna Moosa -
A new court case could finally give survivors and law enforcement the tools they need to bring sex offenders to justice even decades after their crimes.

#FrankelCase: Constitutional court rules there’s no expiry date on sexual offenses

Pontsho Pilane and Carl Collison -
Bianca Jonkers* was gang raped and the free Vimba! app puts helped her access counselling and care.

‘I would have killed myself’: Free app puts care at rape...

Pontsho Pilane -

Court case could axe a loophole letting sexual abusers off the...

Pontsho Pilane -
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