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A virtual dialogue looked at the important issues surrounding food security pre- and post-Covid-19.Several challenges to food security were highlighted that further perpetuated inequality.Dialogue revealed access to food does not take place in a vacuum but rather in the politics around it.A virtual dialogue looking at the important issues surrounding food security pre- and post-Covid-19…

Two Mpumalanga women have been sentenced for opening false rape cases against their boyfriends. The court found that the women lied in their police statements.In one case, police found that the woman opened a rape case to source contraceptive pills from a local hospital.Two Mpumalanga women have been sentenced for opening false rape cases against their boyfriends…

Despite millennials being firmly in their family-building years, fewer 25- to 39-year-olds are having kids than ever, thanks to factors like the 2008 financial crisis, a lack of paid family leave or affordable child care, and a lot of anxiety about the state of the world. Now, they can list “living through a pandemic” among…

Three women have been violently killed in KwaZulu-Natal, two of who were murdered last week.One of the victims was a mother allegedly killed by her boyfriend in front of her children.Police are still trying to identify the bodies of two of the women.Three women have been killed by violent means in just weeks in KwaZulu-Natal,…

A #WomensLivesMatter picket was held in Cape Town to reflect the horror of the murder of women and children. It was held outside the headquarters of the Western Cape provincial police headquarters, where picketers held up posters.The police officer who accepted the memorandum told the solemn gathering they agreed with them and welcomed them as partners.The…