More than 80,000 Eastern Cape girls from poor backgrounds are to receive free sanitary towels, courtesy of the department of social development.Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta announced on Tuesday that the department had begun the rollout of “sanitary dignity packs”, with one pack designed to last a girl the full school year.
Two major organisations wrapped up Women’s Month on a high note by bringing information on HIV/Aids and gender-based violence to high school girls at a workshop at the Regent Hotel on Thursday.
Border Icons of Sport handed over 50 wheelchairs to various charities during an event in Buffalo Flats this week. The handover, sponsored by Taiwanese Amifoto Child Care Centre, was held at the Khanya Youth Development Centre, where about seven organisations received chairs.
As we reach the end of this year's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign Daron Mann talks to Lesley Ann Foster, Executive Director at Masimanyane Women's Support Centre, about the surge of gender-based violence in South Africa and the Eastern Cape after a spate of violent killings of Eastern Cape women.