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Courts need to take into account Battered Woman Syndrome and other psychological effects of ongoing intimate partner violence.

Him or me: How abused women are criminalised

A constitutional challenge to the Mandatory Minimum Sentences Regime and the Criminal Law Amendment Act aims to show that these Acts fail to consider the effects of prolonged violence against women by an intimate partner

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File photo: University of Stellenbosch students embark on a Start Letting Us Talk (SLUT) march during International Women’s Day commemoration on March 07, 2017 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. (Photo by Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Resisting gender discrimination: The call for resocialisation in South Africa

Changing damaging socio-cultural norms that justify discrimination against women is a powerful form of resistance

  • Des Erasmus
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