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Private Sector Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund Launched

Private sector steps to fund gender-based violence response

Gender Based Violence, News

Government and private sector launch fund to fight gender-based violence and femicide, with R70 million already raised.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
February 5, 2021

Stop Gender Based Violence reads the poster being held by a women during a march in Gauteng

A support network in Thembisa will help young women identify GBV red flags

Gender Based Violence, News

People Opposed to Women Abuse (POWA) Thembisa is focusing on healing and empowering survivors of gender-based violence through a support network, long after #16Days ends.

Marcia Moyana
December 11, 2020

A father is cycling across the country to raise awareness about good parenting and gender-based violence

Gender Based Violence, News

A South African cyclist is using his bicycle as a weapon against Gender Based Violence - seeking to inspire youngsters to get physical as he rides from Beit Bridge to Cape Town

Mogale Mojela
December 10, 2020

Men in rural Limpopo step up for the global #16Days of Activism campaign

News

As part of the global #16 Days campaign, a group of men in rural Limpopo came together to discuss gender-based violence. They learned anger-management techniques and how to hold each other accountable.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
November 30, 2020

Reinstatement of ANC member accused of raping 8 year-old daughters shocks country

News

#16Days highlighting Gender Based Violence starts hours after a top regional politician is reinstated by the ANC despite being charged with raping his daughters.

healthe
November 25, 2020

16 Days of Activism gender-based violence

Sixteen Days of Activism aimed at shining light on ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence

News

Global activities are planned to make the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence. This year the theme is ‘Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!’ Globally, one in three women experience physical or sexual violence, most often perpetrated by an intimate partner.

healthe
November 23, 2020

Hammanskraal protestors demand no bail for perpetrators as gender-based violence cases spike

News

The killing of a young woman has sparked protests in Hammanskraal. With gender-based violence incidents increasing, protestors say perpetrators should not be granted bail.

PreciousMashiane
September 23, 2020

Double burden: Covid-19 has made the load women carry even heavier than before

Health

Even before the pandemic, women carried an unequal burden of social, cultural and economic ills. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this, with the effects of lockdown disproportionately affecting women, write Charlotte Motsoari and Amina Mwaikambo at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

healthe
September 15, 2020

A perpetrator of gender-based violence on how prison helped him process his anger

Gender Based Violence

Mpho Mosia was jailed for gender-based violence. He tells Health-e News how prison helped him work through his anger.

Bontle Motsoeneng
August 20, 2020

South Africa normalises Gender-Based Violence

It is time to stop normalising Gender-Based Violence

Gender Based Violence

Every year, South Africans read dozens of terrible stories on gender-based vio-lence, which normalizes this scourge. It’s time to stop being numb to this national pain, writes community worker Tsamme Mmammone Mfundisi.

healthe
August 18, 2020

Dual pandemics at the centre of Women’s Month

News

Recently, Minister Nkoana-Mashabane launched 2020 Women’s Month, which will prioritise both how Covid-19 affects women, and the rising rates of gender-based violence during the country’s national lockdown.

Marcia Moyana
July 31, 2020

Perceptions of masculinity stop men reporting abuse

News

Abuse knows no gender, and according to experts, men struggle with acknowledging their abuse due to shame and embarrassment.

SandileMbili
July 20, 2020

The journey towards SA’s momentous GBV plan

Gender Based Violence, News

Mandisa Khanyile, Rise Up Against Gender-Based Violence founder, sheds some light on the chronology and intention of the national strategic plan on gender-based violence and femicide.

Nelisiwe Msomi
July 18, 2020

Hands showing lab workers testing for HIV

Gains in battle against HIV under threat

Gender Based Violence, Health, News

UNAIDS says the 90-90-90 targets for 2020 will not be met, citing COVID-19 as a major contributor to the delays

Marcia Moyana
July 6, 2020

#Helpafriendout: Community-led project centres nutrition needs

News

"Growing up, I used to help my grandparents with their small garden where we grew flowers, cabbage and spinach. That's where I developed an interest in farming,” says Amogelang Moroba, chairperson of the Soshanguve-based organisation #Helpafriendout.

PreciousMashiane
July 1, 2020

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