petticoat.hyena (60)in #domestic • 6 years agoPart 1: What three different cases of violence sayDuring the week of 3 March three women – Elizabeth Koue, Babes Wodumo and Karima Brown – provided us with a glimpse…petticoat.hyena (60)in #shelters • 6 years agoCosting shelter servicesYesterday the National Shelter Movement and the Hlanganisa Institute for Development in South Africa launched the…petticoat.hyena (60)in #domestic • 6 years agoIntroducing the importance of domestic violence shelters in South AfricaIn S v Baloyi the Constitutional Court placed a clear duty on the state to address domestic violence. As the form of…petticoat.hyena (60)in #hiv • 6 years agoPost-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV-infection after rape: not just swallowing a pillSouth Africa provides rape complainants with a 28-day course of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent infection…petticoat.hyena (60)in #specialised • 6 years agoPart 2: What does justice cost?Today's post looks at the role of prosecutors, who are also crucial to the creation of specialised court responses to…petticoat.hyena (60)in #courts • 6 years agoWhat Does Justice Cost?Justice is the colour of money and the weight of numbers – which is just another way of saying that justice depends as…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoPart 2: Rape trials and the art of warYesterday's post looked at cross-examination as a set of tactics. Today's follow-up looks at the language and grammar…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoRape Trials and the Art of WarLast week South Africans were transfixed by the cross-examination of Cheryl Zondi, one of the complainants in the…petticoat.hyena (60)in #writing • 6 years agoLearning to writeI have been trying to write again: Business Day, News24 and the Sunday Times. But too many years of writing horrible…petticoat.hyena (60)in #shelters • 6 years agoShelter in South AfricaThe first domestic violence shelter in South Africa was opened by People Opposing Women Abuse in 1984. A second…petticoat.hyena (60)in #endings • 6 years agoWhen an end to limbo becomes possibleIt's taken 14 months - yes, 14 months - to do something very simple: convert a csv. file to excel and then import it…petticoat.hyena (60)in #paedophilia • 6 years agoPart 2: The paedophile in South AfricaThe paedophile did not always exist as a psychological type waiting to be discovered. The second part of this article…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoPart 1: A history of race and rape in South AfricaLate in September a 20 year-old man was caught raping a 7 year-old girl in a restaurant toilet. It was an…petticoat.hyena (60)in #habits • 6 years agoDay 1: creating new habitsWillpower, I have read, comes with the entrenchment of better habits. And if these habits are not made, well…petticoat.hyena (60)in #taxes • 6 years agoDeath and taxes, or what you can't hide from foreverI last submitted my taxes in November of 2012 when I stopped working full-time and became a student. My income became…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoWar and epidemic, or how we've been thinking about rapeFinally, after months of confusion, I woke up with the title to my PhD. This is 'War and Epidemic, or the Science of…petticoat.hyena (60)in #social • 6 years agoRanting and raging when things fall apartFor the last two/three years I've been tracking what's happening to women's services in South Africa so know it's bad.…petticoat.hyena (60)in #frankenstein • 6 years agoA science of rape?What is a science of rape? It might be something like Frankenstein - a combination of hubris, an unwarranted faith in…petticoat.hyena (60)in #archaeology • 6 years agoHistories and their timesI started out writing in anger about today's Total Shutdown March, which I didn't attend - partly due to PhD deadlines…petticoat.hyena (60)in #sorting • 6 years agoOrdering people, places and thingsToday's reading focused on the way we sort things out - how we constantly classify, categorise and order things, often…
