Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary
epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts …

Pre-colonial African societies had developed varied means of dealing with transgressors
against social and political order. Colonial authorities throughout southern Africa introduced …

SOUTH AFRICA HAS the worst known figures for gender-based violence for a country not at
war. At least one in three South African women will be raped in their lifetime. These rates of …

South Africa has the worst known figures for gender-based violence for a country not at war.
At least one in three South African women will be raped in her lifetime. The rates of sexual …

In April 2009, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned the President of Afghanistan that
critical Allied support for the mission could diminish if the Afghan government did not change …

This article investigates rape through the lens of biopolitics, using Agamben's notion of a
state of exception and bare life. I will argue that there needs to be a closer look at the …

This article examines the implications of the trial of Jacob Zuma, current president of the
ANC, for sexual and gender politics in South Africa. The article argues that a central …

In the decade following the second world war, more and more African women were
relegated to objects of sexual gratification, as men attempted to reassert their patriarchal …

This article focuses on post-apartheid developments in relation to the sexual politics that
surrounded the 2006 rape trial of South Africa's former Deputy President, Jacob Zuma. The …

What is the Prize, and who pays the Price? The desired and the desirable are often
constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our …