Man Shoots Wife: Intimate Femicide In Gauteng, South Africa
This essay draws on inquest records and newspaper reports to analyse the nature of femicide in South Africa.
03 Dec 1996
Gender-based Violence Tag
Female Circumcision: Cultural Right Or Human Wrong?
This article examines female circumcision from an African perspective. It relies on the conception of human rights as laid down in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights as the standard against which to evaluate female circumcision.
03 Oct 1994
A Critique Of South African Police Training For Dealing With Rape Cases
This essay discusses problems with South African Police (SAP) training for dealing with issues of rape. It addresses SAP basic training, a specialised ad-hoc SAP course on rape, as well the opportunities for new programmes.
03 Feb 1994
The Ritual Of The Necklace
In this paper an attempt is made to develop a clearer understanding of the 'necklace' form of burning which has evolved in South Africa. Three areas of exploration are suggested. Firstly, traditional Bantu ideas of punishment, witchcraft and fire are discussed in relation to the practice of necklacing. In the second area of research, possible explanations are examined for the resurgence of the practice of burning which had virtually disappeared this century. This leads into the third area, where the necklacing act, which includes the preparations, is analysed as a ritual.
03 Feb 1994
Women And Children In Violent South African Townships
This paper addresses the issue of violence against women and children in South African townships. It argues that the problems of domestic violence and the brutalisation of women and children cannot, except at very grave risk, be relegated to a structural problem within the environment of the homestead. It is intimately related to levels of violence in our society more generally – a society grappling with the legacy of apartheid and the fear-instilling process of socio-political transformation.
03 Feb 1993
Gang Rape And The Culture Of Violence In South Africa
This paper examines the high incidence of rape in South Africa. The focus of the paper is on the phenomenon of gang rape, which in many ways crystallises the power issue which is at the nexus of rape.
03 Feb 1993