#NigeriaDecides2023: How old – or young – are the candidates? Where are the women? And who has a PhD? What the data shows
Nigeria’s electoral commission recently released data on the 2023 general election candidates. We took a closer look.
COMMENT: Accurate information needed to counter violence against women
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was wrong when he said 51% of women in the country had experienced partner violence. It's important ...
10 fast - many startling - facts about women in Africa
As the world marks International Women’s Day, which this year is focused on pushing for better gender balance, we looked up some notable fac
COMMENT: The (fact)ors that matter in an anti-rape campaign
“Raising awareness” about violence against women is useless if you don’t also show how people can help stop it, writes the director of the R
COMMENT: The white right, women's murders and a massacre of statistics
Horribly flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on SA's white right to prove their thesis that black men ar
Racial scare-mongering in South Africa makes light of women's murders
Claims that white women are likely to be murdered by "unknown black males" amount to racial scare-mongering, writes Lisa Vetten.
Police minister's speech a glass half full
The recent budget vote speech by South Africa's police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, left out the bad news and relied on questionable statistics...