TALI FEINBERG “We like to believe there’s no gender-based violence in our community – that Jewish husbands, wives, parents, and professionals don’t abuse. However, abuse is alive and well in the Jewish community in South Africa and around the world. We aren’t immune.” These are the words of Rozanne Sack, [Read More]
Sonke Gender Justice calls for the urgent implementation of a coordinated National Strategic Plan (NSP) on gender-based violence. With staggering levels of violence and rape at endemic levels in South Africa, nonprofit organisation Sonke Gender Justice is using the platform of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and [Read More]
supersport.com – Joe Maluleke Former Bafana Bafana star striker Benni McCarthy has joined the fight against the scourge of women and child abuse by announcing his support and endorsement for child rights group Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA). McCarthy, a European Champions League winner and Bafana’s all-time leading scorer, [Read More]
EWN – Ilze-Marie Le Roux CAPE TOWN – Women and Men Against Child Abuse says it’s shocked by the gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in Nyanga. The teenager was abducted and raped last weekend. Seven suspects have been arrested and will appear in court today. An eighth suspect is [Read More]
IOL – Raahil Sain Port Elizabeth – Disgraced tennis pro Bob Hewitt appeared to have dodged the media as he handed himself over to authorities at St Albans Correctional Centre in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday. Reporters arrived outside the prison at the crack of dawn in hope to get a [Read More]
The Mercury – Shain Germaner CALL TO REVIEW SEX CRIME LAW Long-buried incidents by sexual predators who abused children could come out to haunt the perpetrators – years after they committed such offences. An ambitious Constitutional Court application could potentially change the law about indecent and sexual assault, opening the [Read More]
