Opinion

ANC leaders need to own up to past sexual violence

20 October 2019 - 00:03 By william gumede

What appears to be a sudden alarming rise in violence against women is in fact the continuation of a rape culture that has been with us since the apartheid dispensation, but which has not been spoken about loudly before, the victims shamed or feared into silence or a stubborn denial of the enormity of the crisis...

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