Femicide; The Scourge of South Africa - a podcast by ALC Pan-African Radio

Diana Russell in her book the ‘politics of woman killing’ defines femicide as the killing of women by men because they are women. Russell argues that while men are murdered more frequently than women, they are rarely murdered simply because they are men. South Africa has experienced the worst of Gender Based Violence in what has been termed by the nation a Femicide crisis with more cases being reported than any other country in Africa. A South African police service report stated that femicide increased by eleven percent between 2016 and 2018. Despite these numbers, limited action has been taken by the government.

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