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REPORT: South Africa, Women and Water
March 2012: Report by Koketso Moeti - "As primary caregivers, women are the heaviest users of water... they often compromise their own safety by going long distances for water."
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South Africa’s Garbage Cooperatives
Nokwanda Sotyantya sits among heaps of garbage and patiently sorts through it, separating cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and metal, piece by piece. The recycled piles of trash are then weighed and...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Rage at gang-rape suspects
In the notorious cellphone video of a 17-year-old girl being gang-raped, the perpetrators are seen laughing and taking turns to rape her. As the seven accused walked into the Roodepoort Magistrate’s...
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Filmed or Not, Rape is a Vicious Crime
According to the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa has one of the highest level of child rape globally....
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South Africa: Girls Need More Than ‘Access’ to Education
May 2012: By Koketso Moeti - "Speaking to girls who had attended school, it seems that the ugly head of poverty once again affects girls' ability to complete school..."
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'Sweet Home' of Poverty, Overcrowding and Abuse - a South African Township
May 2012: Dominique Roberts talks with gilrs in the Kayamandi township - "Thandeka is age 19. She lives in a three-roomed shack with her mother, grandmother, four step-siblings and her toddler..."
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South Africa: Babies behind bars
Growing up behind bars can be traumatic, but some prisons work hard to improve conditions for the children of women inmates. No matter how much effort goes into painting them, Mickey Mouse and Timothy...
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South Africa: The Legacy of Apartheid Lives On
Aug 2012: Dominique Roberts interviews Koketso Moeti: 'Black women are still the most disempowered group of people in the nation, even today...."
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South Africa: Women can do it too says judge
The judiciary is an institution fraught with sexism, with women keen to become judges constantly being degraded and not being given the same respect as their male counterparts, says Judge Kathy...
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Rape 'Justification' in South Africa
By Dominique Roberts: "Men were asked why rapes take place: 'She is your wife, but she only wants to sleep with you once a week... you will end up raping your own child. These women really get us into...
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South Africa: Sexual Abuse in Our Schools
Oct 2012: By Koketso Moeti - "Recurring sentiment amongst male learners was, 'These girls want it. What do they expect us to think coming to school in such short skirts with no panties on?'"
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South Africa's Schools: How The State Fails Victims of Sexual Abuse
Oct 2012: By Koketso Moeti - "For the Ramavhoya family, the culture of impunity for rape perpetrators... took away their daughter. The courts are failing to protect victims of sexual abuse in schools."
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A Dangerous Game for Women: Football and Corrective Rape
Nov 2012. By Shireen Ahmed - "Black lesbian footballers not only have to fight against stereotypes in order to engage in football and but must face stigma and danger. The concept of “corrective rape”...
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South Africa: Shocking Conditions of Maternity Wards in 'Country of Abundance'
April 2013: By Koketso Moeti - "South Africa is blessed with an abundant supply of natural resources.. Yet most of South Africa’s public maternity wards do not have functional and essential equipment."
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South Africa: When Those Meant to ‘Protect and Serve’ are Perpetrators
May 2013: By Koketso Moeti - "Police are the first point of call when reporting a crime – something which further puts victims at risk, in South Africa. An increasing number of police officers are...
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Nombuyiselo Nxakoa: A story of women's empowerment
Forget the celebrities, lets talk ordinary. These are the women mostly forgotten when celebrating women's empowerment.
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Are 30,000 children really ‘trafficked’ in South Africa every year?
Are 30,000 children “trafficked” into the sex trade every year in South Africa? Are 30,000 children “currently” being prostituted in South Africa? As Africa Check discovered, the estimates are not...
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Moving Forward in South Africa: The Role of the Women’s Legal Centre
Dec 2013: By Olivia Bliss - "The Women’s Legal Centre, where I have interned since September this year, is a not-for-profit law centre in Cape Town, set up in 1999 by a group of female lawyers...."
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Koketso Moeti: South Africa, Childcare and Poverty
Solutions shouldn’t be about childcare just for the sake of leaving kids somewhere, but childcare that provides all children irrespective of the socio-economic standing of their families with an...
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Gender Discrimination in South African Newsrooms
According to Pontsho Pilane, a South African journalist at The Daily Vox, dealing with harassment is part of the job for female journalists... Pilane’s observations are not the only problems facing...
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