10-Aug-2018 to 09:17

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — South Africa will host a National Gender Summit aimed at addressing challenges the country’s women face daily at the end of August, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

06-Aug-2018 to 12:40

APA-Gaborone (Botswana) — Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Monday urged the nation to get involved in rooting out gender-based crimes as the southern African country grapples with a spate of violence against women.

02-Aug-2018 to 12:04

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged to look the demands from Wednesday’s nationwide #TotalShutdown march staged to protest rampant gender-based violence (GBV) in the country.

01-Aug-2018 to 10:00

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — Scores of South African women, dressed in black and red attire have assembled in various parts of the country on Wednesday, pledging their support to the #TotalShutdown march in protest against rampant gender-based violence (GBV) nationwide.

01-Aug-2018 to 09:50

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has welcomed a South Gauteng High Court’s ruling setting aside the decision to grant diplomatic immunity to the wife of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe following an alleged violent attack on a South African model at a Johannesburg hotel last year.

14-Jul-2018 to 13:47

APA-Maputo (Mozambique) — Mozambique's minister for Gender, Women, Children and Social Action, Cidália Chaúque says at least 9,000 children were raped in the country in 2017 out of 25,000 registered cases of violence.

06-Jul-2018 to 06:09

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called on all men to join hands with it and other organisations to ensure that gender-based violence (GBV) and similar atrocities against women and children are nipped in the bud in the country.