Creator
The under-investment in cash transfers and caring services by the government suggests that many may well fall still further behind
Our past tells us that women mobilise in ways that produce significant political results. But the present shows how easily these gains can evaporate.
A US global fund has cut back on critical funding for services provided to survivors of violent crime. Government must provide a sustainable solution.
It wasn’t really about ‘impartial, objective’ judgment, but rather competing narratives.
Flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on South Africa’s white right to prove black men are more violent than white.
The proposed equality legislation just duplicates functions from other laws, and offers nothing new, writes Lisa Vetten.
Activism has to command the short attention spans of the outraged if it is to succeed, writes Lisa Vetten.
It is an atypical argument for a gender activist to make – that the police must put more effort into investigating cases of stranger rape.
A gender activist slams the media’s contention that the Protection from Harassment Bill is part of a state conspiracy to clamp down on the media
Lisa Vetten looks at the gulf between new progressive laws and their implementation.
"This year, when the statistics went up the increase was explained as proof of greater public confidence in the police, thus encouraging women to report the crime. These…
Journalists are the self-appointed custodians of the pot of public sympathy and they guard its apportionment jealously. To the good and virtuous they dole out rich, nourishing…
Statistics, in and of themselves make for boring conversation and dull reading. Yet they leap to volatile, political life when used to make arguments about race and violence, sex…
