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With 16 days of activism against gender-based violence coming into effect today, the campaign reminds survivors of gender-based violence and femicide of the permanent scars of being violated. The campaign was started in 1991 by activists at the inauguration of the Women’s Global Leadership Institute, and it is used as an organising strategy by individuals and organisations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and children.

Saturday June 17, 2023 - The High Court of South Africa, Eastern Cape Division, sitting in East London, on Thursday, sentenced a former Correctional Services official, Simphiwe Mxosa, 48, to life imprisonment for the murder of his ex-wife. In addition to declaring him unfit to possess a firearm, the court made an order for Mxosa’s children…

Drama broke out in the East London high court when convicted wife killer Simphiwe Mxosa reportedly tried to hang himself shortly before being sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

The state has asked the high court judge sitting for the trial of convicted wife killer Simphiwe Mxosa to sentence the former correctional service employee to no less than life imprisonment. Prosecutor Andile Nohiya made his closing argument in the East London court on Friday, pointing out that Mxosa, a law enforcement officer, instead of protecting his wife, Bulelwa, had killed her.

Convicted wife killer and former correctional services prison warden Simphiwe Mxosa was not in his “full mind” when he hacked his wife death in front of a young child inside his room at the West Bank Prison barracks in March 2022.