# Die Nobel-vredespryswenner, Malala Yousafzai, het Suid-Afrika versoek om saam met Afghaanse vroue en meisies te staan teen wat sy bestempel as “geslagsapartheid” onder die Pakistanse Taliban-bewind. Sy was gister een van die sprekers by die Nasionale Vrouedag-vieringe in Pretoria. Yousafzai is in Oktober 2012 deur die Taliban in die kop geskiet vir haar geslagsaktivisme. […]
# Western Cape police are offering rewards of up to 100-thousand-rand for information related to two of the three separate mass shootings which claimed eleven lives in Cape Town over the weekend. Five people were shot and killed in Langa while three others were shot and killed in the Barcelona informal settlement in Gugulethu. Three […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê baie moet nog gedoen word om veral geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord aan te spreek, wat die regering as ‘n nasionale ramp verklaar het. Die Verenigde Nasies se Vroueorganisasie reken die koers waarteen Suid-Afrikaanse vroue vermoor word is vyf keer die wêreldgemiddeld. Die president het gister die viering van die 70ste herdenking […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die vryheid van vroue is onverdeelbaar, aangesien geen kultuur, godsdiens, regering of ideologie die inkorting van vroue tot minderwaardige mense kan regverdig nie. Hy het gister die hoofrede gelewer tydens die Nasionale Vrouedag-herdenkingsgeleentheid by die Uniegebou in Pretoria. Ramaphosa sê sedert die koms van demokrasie het Suid-Afrika beduidende vordering gemaak […]
# Die EFF-leier Julius Malema sal na verwagting ‘n aanklag van crimen injuria in die Johannesburgse landdroshof in die gesig staar nadat hy die voormalige skoolhoof van Bergview College, Jaco Pieterse, valslik van verkragting beskuldig het in die Cwe Cwe-saak. Daar is beweer ‘n sewejarige meisie, wat die skuilnaam Cwe Cwe gebruik het, is in […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says much work remains to be done, particularly in addressing gender-based violence and femicide, which government has classified as a national disaster. The United Nations Women puts the rate at which South African women are killed at five times the global average. He led the commemorating of the 70th anniversary of […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the freedom of women is indivisible, as no culture, religion, government or ideology can justify reducing women to lesser human beings. He delivered the keynote address at the National Women’s Day commemoration event at the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday. Ramaphosa says since the advent of democracy, South Africa has […]
# The Gauteng Department of Health says cervical cancer screening increased by 29-percent during the 2025/26 financial year. More than 198-thousand women were screened, up from 153-thousand the previous year. Gauteng Health MEC Faith Mazibuko says screening empowers women to take charge of their health. The department spokesperson Steve Mabona says HPV vaccination and awareness […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema is expected to face a crimen injuria charge in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court after he falsely accused former Bergview College principal Jaco Pieterse of rape in the Cwe Cwe case. It was alleged that a seven-year-old girl, using the pseudonym Cwe Cwe, was sexually assaulted on school grounds while waiting […]