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    MEDIA STATEMENT: GAUTENG FEMICIDE CASES AND THE FOURTH SOUTHERN AFRICA GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) PREVENTION FORUM

    The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is deeply alarmed by, and strongly condemns, the discovery of at least seven women’s bodies over the past two months in the Kempton Park and Olifantsfontein areas of Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. This disturbing pattern, emerging amid escalating violence against women in South Africa, is another attack on women’s rights, dignity, and…

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      CSVR Announces New Executive Director

      The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is pleased to announce that Ms Teresa Yates will assume the role of Executive Director, effective 1 August 2026. Ms Yates' extensive legal career spans strategic litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and policy reform. She has led key structural design frameworks for the South African Department of Land Affairs, advocating for…

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      In the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice

      In the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice This article is published as part of the CSVR Justice Op-Ed Series for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The Bolwana* and Vayo* families are currently at odds with one another over the murder of their first granddaughter, who was brutally killed…

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      Behind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence

      Behind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence What happens when the very technologies built to connect and empower us become weapons of surveillance, control, and gendered harm? Over the last decade, digital tools and online spaces have transformed how people organise, mobilise, and advocate for gender equality and social justice. Movements like #MeToo, #BringBackOurGirls, the Gen Z…

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        MEDIA STATEMENT: ABDUCTION OF 315 SCHOOLGIRLS AND WOMEN IN NIGERIA

        The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) expresses its deepest alarm and unequivocal condemnation of the abduction of 315 schoolgirls and teachers from St Mary's Catholic School in north-central Nigeria over the weekend. This horrifying incident perpetrated in a context of escalating violence against women and girls represents yet another assault on the rights, dignity, and safety…

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        • Children and Youth, Racialised violence, Schools

        Confronting racial violence in schools

          School violence manifests itself in many forms including discipline problems such as fighting among learners, bullying, utterances of crude and sexist remarks against fellow learners and teachers, racism, stabbings, shootings at schools and even murder. However, given that race frequently intersects with gender and class at the point of perpetration and marginalization, these issues need to be considered in…

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