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South Africa
South Africa has a population estimated at 50.1 million (UN, 2009) with an area of 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles). The capitals are Pretoria (executive capital), Cape Town (legislative capital) and Bloemfontein (judicial capital). South Africa has 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu.
Until 1994, South Africa was ruled by a white minority government and an apartheid regime. Reform in 1994 marked a change in governance for the nation. However, high levels of violence against women continue to be reported.
- South Africa ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on December 15, 1995
- South Africa does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
- South Africa does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate
- South Africa is a Permanent Member of the Security Council in 2012
Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM
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News
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April 26, 2012 (The Star)
SOUTH AFRICA: Still A Nation of Rapists 18 Years On Seven children under the age of 14 were being raped in Soweto in a day. Nearly 30 children were being raped every month. More than 100 were raped over the four months before we cast our first democratic vote in April 1994, leaving then-Soweto police spokesman Joseph Ngobeni to say: “We can't go on like this.” -
April 19, 2012 (The Guardian)
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa Searches Soul Over Alleged Rape of Disabled 17 Year-Old Girl It is a country that can seem inured to violence from sheer familiarity. But this was a crime so shocking that even South Africa has begun to search its soul. -
February 9, 2012 (Dispatch Online)
SOUTH AFRICA: Raping young South Africa THE rape of babies and children screams to be at the very top of South Africa's national agenda – the most urgent of our many urgent debates. With it we need to place the rape of women and even men. -
February 7, 2012 (Make Every Woman Count)
SOUTH AFRICA: What's Love Got to Do With It? Over the past decade there has been a trend in many countries of creating space for the role that men can play in ending gender-based violence. South Africa has also seen a steady increase of organisations that seek to answer this complex question by engaging in various strategies. These include introducing us to the "new man in town", an embodiment of positive and progressive masculinity, and beginning conversations with men about how they can help to end violence against women. -
January 18, 2012 (Vatican Radio)
SOUTH AFRICA: The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference Appoints a Woman as New Secretary-General The bishops of Southern Africa have appointed Sister Hermenegild Makoro as the new Secretary- General of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. She will replace Fr Vincent Brennan SMA who is to retire in March.
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Resources
- Scaling Up for Zero Tolerance: Civil Society Leadership in Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls in Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa, Global Aids Alliance, CSVR, Rwandan Women's Network, August 2008 | Download PDF
- UNODC: Supporting Victim Empowerment in South Africa, 2008 | Download PDF
- Gender, Justice, and Truth Commissions, World Bank, June 2006 | Download PDF
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Initiatives
- CAMPAIGN: Breakthrough! Anti-Rape Campaign Enters the National Conversation in South Africa, Campaigns, , January 7, 2011
- BLOG: Gender-Based Violence: Emptying the Meaning of Peace and Democracy, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , December 6, 2010
- Women's Month in South Africa , Other, , August 6, 2004
- The South African 50/50 by 2005 Campaign , Campaigns, , August 2008
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