South Africans have been horrified by the murder of University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana. Initial reports suggest a post office worker has confessed to raping and killing the 19-year-old.

Pitch Black Afro, accused of murdering his wife Catherine Modisane, appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court to apply for bail. Picture: Dimpho Maja / African News Agency (ANA).

The United Nations campaign, which South Africa adopted in 1998, aims to eliminate all forms of gender - based violence. Children were included in the campaign in 1999.

South Africa has a particular problem with femicide and violence against women. In 2020, an average of one woman died at the hands of her intimate partner every eight hours, according to a study ...

The Femicide Study revealed that in 2017 and 2020/2021, 15.7% and 8.6% of femicide case dockets, respectively, could not be located in police stations due to mismatched or missing case numbers.

Femicide in South Africa Cape Town Women Are Waging War on Gender-Based Violence. ... as if she is still waiting for news on her niece's whereabouts. Then, gesticulating wildly, ...

This question around the early release of inmates, albeit under certain conditions, has been raised in South Africa following the freeing on parole of former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius ...