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Sexual violence in schools is a pervasive issue, affecting both learners and teachers.
CRIMINAL LAW

Sexual violation: Education institutions need a law of their own

Many students seem unaware of policies and lack the knowledge to name sexual violations as such

  • Palesa Lebitse
4 min read
Lungisa Fuzile (Gallo)
KHENSANI MASEKO

Our universities must stop being sites of women abuse

‘Clearly our universities are no welcoming safe spaces for women,’ writes Lukhona Mnguni

  • Lukhona Mnguni
7 min read
‘We also need radical change in what is socially accepted and to undo power relationships that enable and protect perpetrators of sexual violence,’ writes Philip Machanick
GENDER VIOLENCE

Rhodes must stop treating rapists like victims

The university senate is fighting over the limited execution of a limited sexual violence strategy

  • Philip Machanick
6 min read
All articles in this week’s M&G are free to read
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

​Unembargoed: August 10 to 16

President Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants in the next three years. More in this week’s unembargoed.

  • Mg Reporter
8 min read
Khensani Maseko was buried at the Calgro M3 Memorial Park in Nasrec on Thursday. Her family, in a reference to her rape by her former boyfriend, condemned all violence against women. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY

Rhodes rages after suicide

Has the university, rocked by protests in 2016, done enough to address gender violence?

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
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EDITORIAL

Editorial: Strike down rape culture

‘Today, women might be politically free like all other South Africans, but they remain enslaved in the shackles of a predatory patriarchy’

  • Editorial
2 min read
Maseko was an active member of the Rhodes student body, who had been elected to be on the SRC and had been voted Miss Varsity for the 2017/2018 year.
KHENSANI MASEKO

Rhodes SRC calls for academic shutdown in honour of student’s death

Khensani Maseko is alleged to have taken her own life as a result of a rape

  • Raeesa Pather
2 min read