This was one of the issues raised during a webinar commemorating one year since the rape and murder of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana.
At an event marking a year since the murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana, the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation on Monday hosted a virtual discussion on the role of men and other issues in the fight to end violence against women.
The University of Cape Town student, aged 19, was raped and murdered at the Post Office in Claremont by a worker, Luyanda Botha.
The 19-year-old UCT student was raped and killed at the Clareinch Post Office before her body was dumped in Khayelitsha.
The University of Cape Town student was raped and killed at the Post Office in Claremont before her body was dumped in Khayelitsha.
There’s frustration nationwide with the killings of women and children thrust into the spotlight yet again.
Twenty-eight-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was laid to rest on Thursday after she was found hanging from a tree in a Roodepoort with multiple stab wounds to her chest.
Two weeks ago, Uyinene Mrwetyana's family instituted a civil claim against the Post Office for her murder.
The 19-year-old was raped and murdered by a Post Office teller inside the Clareinch Post Office in August last year.
Current and former Post Office staffers told Eyewitness News that they reported Ntuli for groping and spanking women, promising them jobs if they slept with him, or gave away their jobs if they didn’t to those who supposedly did.
Nomangwane Mrwetyana, the mother of slain Uyinene, said the family would light a candle and say a prayer at the lunch table in honour of her daughter.
Machel says she wishes she could have made better progress in the fight against gendered violence on the university campus.
The Clareinch Post Office will be converted into a wellness centre after The 19-year-old's death in August sparked nationwide outrage against the high levels of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.
The nineteen-year-old student was raped and murdered inside the Clareinch Post Office in August.
The statement comes after TVET student Precious Ramabulana was found stabbed to death in her room off-campus on Sunday.
Precious Ramabulana was found dead in her room off-campus on Sunday and had apparently been stabbed 52 times.
Dozens of people took to the streets of Khayelitsha on Monday to mark the start of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children.
The president was speaking at the launch of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence in Limpopo.
