
For domestic workers, women’s month marks their ongoing struggle
Domestic workers are still fighting from the margins of unregulated labour where slave-like servitude persists and goes unreported.
Domestic workers are still fighting from the margins of unregulated labour where slave-like servitude persists and goes unreported.
For over three decades, residents of rural villages in Vhembe in Limpopo have been suffering without running water and even those who reside a few kilometres from the massive Nandoni dam do not have water.
Dilapidated infrastructure, water shortages, network problems and lack of electricity have been cited as some of the causes for the failure of South Africa’s criminal justice system in dealing with cases of gender-based violence.
“We’re tired of the talk, and want action and for sex workers to be taken as human beings”
If we fail to realise that the many-headed monster of youth unemployment requires us to shift the burden from individuals to systems and institutions, we will continue to chop off one head of the hydra, only for two more to grow in its place.
The march in Gugulethu remembered those killed for their sexual orientation and raised a number of unsolved cases with the police.
Queer people celebrated Freedom Day in Makhaza by playing sports and open mic performance.
The LRS report which draws on testimonies from 117 workers in companies in three provinces finds that, bullying, verbal abuse, and physical forms of sexual harassment are common.
An investigation by Ritshidze uncovers that unfriendly services are among a number of issues faced by LGBTQIA+ people at public health facilities.
Two cases of sexual assault involving three EFFSC leaders at UWC provoked students to march against gender-based violence on campus.
A report by the Children’s Institute says that the rate of teenage pregnancy is linked to gender inequality, a lack of sex education and poor reproductive health services.
By Stats SA estimates, 1 in 5 children are victims of sexual violence while the Western Cape education department says there have only been five reported cases at schools in the province so far this year.