Rape
Police unable to interview Cwecwe
SAPS tells Parliament they have been unable to access 7-year-old rape victim
By Sandiso Phaliso and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 15 April 2025
Police can’t say why they let an alleged rapist off the hook
Officers dropped him at hospital without questioning him
News | 15 April 2025
Thousands march to call for justice for raped child
Still no arrests after seven-year-old raped in Eastern Cape in October
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Sandiso Phaliso, Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 1 April 2025
Rape case postponed 23 times
Nearly five years later there has been no justice
By Maanda Bele
News | 13 December 2024
Understanding the High Court ruling on rape and consent
Minister of Justice opposed the case to have “defence of subjective consent to rape” scrapped
Law | 14 October 2024
A deaf woman was gang raped. She has waited more than eight months for a court to get a sign language interpreter
The trial of four men accused of raping the 45-year-old woman has been postponed several times because of this
News | 21 September 2023
It took six years for the court to convict a man for raping his foster child
The serial rapist first appeared in the Khayelitsha Magistrates’ Court in 2017 but was only convicted in August
News | 4 September 2023
Court confirms suspended sentence for man who sexually assaulted seven-year-old
“This is not justice” says a researcher for Judges Matter
By Daniel Steyn
Law | 16 August 2023
Former UCT student named on rapist list wins damages
The woman who wrongfully put the student’s name on the widely circulated list must pay R300,000 in damages and medical bills
Law | 9 September 2022