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.
Masimanyane Women’s Rights International says Women’s Month may as well be cancelled this after two women were killed in East London, one on Friday and another on Saturday, and the female owner of a cash loans business was kidnapped in Mdantsane on Saturday. On Friday, in Summerpride, a woman was shot and killed outside her family home, while on Saturday a woman was found naked, tied up and killed in Buffalo Flats.
The Eastern Cape health department has launched an investigation into allegations that a nurse at one of its facilities shamed a young woman for having a miscarriage.
The number of cases of sexualized violence and femicide in Africa has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Will those in power finally grow aware of the extent of the problem?