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People joined the One in Nine Campaign march in support of Khwezi – Fezekile Kuzwayo- who accused the then president, Jacob Zuma, of raping her. Photo: FIle

Centre black women’s voices and expertise in sexual violence discourse

The sexual harassment case against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge shows the pitfalls of excluding their experience

Praise be: President Cyril Ramaphosa gets down at the Central Methodist Church in Durban earlier this week. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The eagle doesn’t chicken out

Ramaphosa draws on divine support – and ruffles the Thekwini mayor’s feathers

Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners (Photo Archive)

Editorial: We will continue to tell the news

Reporting on allegations of harassment is not easy within the confines of the rules of journalism

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

A humane court is not a bad court

A lawyer can be tough in their cross-examination of a rape survivor without retraumatising them

Unions are claiming Friday’s court ruling on labour broking as spelling the end of the practice but other labour specialists disagree. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Art does not need another hero: Reflections on the 10th Berlin Biennale

This year’s Berlin Biennale poses important questions about otherness, power, violence and patriarchy

Victims of abuse, harassment and rape are too often confronted with obtuse bureaucrats behind the counter. (Media24/Lulama Zenzile)

Rape myths inflict more harm on victims

Sexual assault survivors are silenced by societal prejudice, lack of support from their community or family, secondary trauma and rape myths.

(Reuters)

Ramaphosa roasted at Dlamini-Zuma’s KZN rally

KwaZulu-Natal this weekend played host to the ANC presidential race’s frontrunners.

A whale dives into sea off the coast of Greenland’s capital Nuuk.

Mbete on Khwezi: I don’t want to deal with it

ANC chairperson and presidential hopeful Baleka Mbete has dodged confirming if she believes that President Jacob Zuma raped Fezekile “Khwezi” Kuzwayo.

Vernon Philander decimated the Australian top order with a five-wicket haul on the first day of the second Test in Hobart

Celebrity campaigns and rape culture: the pluses and the pitfalls

The collective outcry from women on social media, using the #Metoo campaign has gripped the global imagination, but the question is what do we do now?

Lindiwe Sisulu

Lindiwe Sisulu says courts were ‘final arbitrator’ on Khwezi

The ANC presidential hopeful said her opinion is "secondary" to the courts on the rape allegations made by Fezeka Khuzwayo against the President.

Justice denied: Redi Tlhabi’s book shows how Fezekile Kuzwayo was put on trial

Khwezi’s tragedy is our disgrace

Redi Tlhabi’s book is an engrossing insight into how South African society conspired to throw the president’s accuser to the wolves

‘Faki’idata ngwana

Editorial: Desensitised to rape

Perhaps we as a society are accustomed to men playing the role of aggressor and predator, because we have witnessed it time and again

The ANC Women’s League is out of touch.

Remembering Khwezi and how the ANCWL continues without admitting they were wrong

Remembering Khwezi should not be reduced to the rape trial, the way she was treated and the injustice of it all, writes Ra’eesa Pather.

Khwezi was brave, fearless – ANCWL

The ANCWL has sent its condolences to the family of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo who died on Saturday.

The acquittal of Zuma did not just endanger Khwezi’s life, but ours as well

The condonation of rape at the highest level of government brings all women’s lives under attack.

Power and predation: The law’s the law on harassment, but the game is rigged

Surely a woman should be able to report harassment without having to move to another country to protect herself from further harm.

People joined the One in Nine Campaign march in support of Khwezi – Fezekile Kuzwayo- who accused the then president, Jacob Zuma, of raping her. Photo: FIle

One in Nine Campaign marches in support of Khwezi

The One in Nine Campaign on Tuesday held a protest in Johannesburg in solidarity with Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser.