Newsflashes

8 March, 2013
Xingwana says dismantling patriarchy is key to bringing down the high levels of violence against women and girls
8 March, 2013
The Department of Agriculture says the lower than expected electricity tariff increase announced last week will help curb household food insecurity
7 March, 2013
Despite the shock value of recent rape incidents in countries like India and South Africa, brutality against women is not a new phenomenon, argues Bachelet
7 March, 2013
The South African National Editors Forum describes the attack on an Eastern Cape journalist as horrifying
7 March, 2013
In commemoration of International Sex Worker Rights Day, sex workers and human rights activists will be taking to the streets to protest the continued abuse sex workers experience at the hands of the police
7 March, 2013
OUTA warns that it will be ‘dangerous’ for e-tolls to be launched before the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill goes to the National Council of Provinces
7 March, 2013
The National Assembly approves legislation that paves the way for the implementation of electronic tolling of Gauteng's major freeways
5 March, 2013
Experts express alarm that the increase in attacks against civil society in Zimbabwe
4 March, 2013
The RFSU terms teachers' difficulties and discomfort in teaching key sex education topics as a challenge that needs to be urgently addressed
4 March, 2013
Zambia to undergo the second phase of the UNHRC review of its fulfilment of international human rights obligations and commitments
4 March, 2013
Zim governor summons 45 NGOs to his offices and announce announced wide-ranging restrictions on their work
1 March, 2013
The Department of Basic Education and LEAD SA announce a major initiative to raise rape awareness and educate the 10.2 million learners in South African schools
1 March, 2013
The SABC News and SAHA have launched a new website highlighting the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
1 March, 2013
SECTION27 calls on provincial education departments to help them with rape cases between teachers and learners
1 March, 2013
The Budget Review’s figures show that in the financial year 2010/11 the SARS lost a mere R118 million of potential revenue as a result of donations made by taxpayers, writes Crott