More than 80,000 Eastern Cape girls from poor backgrounds are to receive free sanitary towels, courtesy of the department of social development.Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta announced on Tuesday that the department had begun the rollout of “sanitary dignity packs”, with one pack designed to last a girl the full school year.
Year in and year out, incidents of gender-based violence and femicide in the Eastern Cape read like the script of a horror movie. The crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele quarterly attest to the magnitude of the problem in the province.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down in Tsholomnqa — possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down — possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Police are investigating seven Eastern Cape primary school boys — aged between 10 and 13 — for allegedly raping three girls, all aged under 10, at a school’s hostels.Six of the accused were allegedly also raped by the eldest in the group, who, according to the victims, sometimes directed them to sexually assault each other.
The mother cannot manage without her sleeping pills now that the schoolteacher who allegedly made her 14-year-old daughter pregnant has been granted bail.
In this episode, Daron Mann speaks with Dr. Lesley-Ann Foster, the founder and director of Masimanyane Women's Rights International, about the case of a pre-schooler's family who accused the child's stepfather, a primary school principal, of rape.
As Women’s Month draws to an end, the month of August — meant to celebrate the mothers, sisters, wives and daughters — was instead marred by bloodshed.