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The department of social development has long relied on international donors to pay for the counselling rape survivors need. Is it time for SA to finally foot the bill?

Bathabile Dlamini & the case of SA’s disappearing rape crisis services

Nelisiwe Msomi -
Women queue outside of a Malawian health facility for healthcare for their children. Moving rape crisis centres out of central hospitals in Malawi and into clinics closer to communities might increase the number of people who use them

What’s the one thing rape crisis centres in SA & Malawi...

Josephine Chinele -

Elsa and Nosipho: They both sell sex for a living, but...

Mia Malan -
How do you fix South Africa's sexual and reproductive health wrongs? Well

This bracelet could one day help keep you safe from rape,...

Roxy de Villiers -
The South African police took a vow to protect people living in the country. Apparently that doesn't apply to sex workers like Cleopatra.

#SliceOfLife: This is what it’s like being a sex worker: ‘Police...

Dylan Bush -
Students who participated in the “Let us protect our future” course were significantly less likely to report having raped someone even five years after the programme had ended.

Could this protect hundreds of children from being raped?

Nelisiwe Msomi -
Sexual violence is rife in Khayelitsha primary schools

Almost half of Khayelitsha primary school learners have experienced sexual violence

Joan van Dyk -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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