Year in and year out, incidents of gender-based violence and femicide in the Eastern Cape read like the script of a horror movie. The crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele quarterly attest to the magnitude of the problem in the province.
Palestinian flags whipped by the wind were held firm by protesters who had gathered underneath the Great War Memorial to march against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on Tuesday.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down in Tsholomnqa possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Police are investigating seven Eastern Cape primary school boys aged between 10 and 13 for allegedly raping three girls, all aged under 10, at a school’s hostels.Six of the accused were allegedly also raped by the eldest in the group, who, according to the victims, sometimes directed them to sexually assault each other.