DSK Group raises awareness of gender-based violence (GBV) at high tea

DSK Group raises awareness of gender-based violence (GBV) at high tea. The DSK (Daniella Simone Keisha) Group held a gender-based violence high tea on Friday at the Mount Edgecombe Conference Centre. The group's humanitarian work focuses on rescuing and supporting victims of abuse, providing relief and rehabilitation for those who have suffered trauma, including abuse, rape, abandonment, and neglect. At the event were. . .

What happened

Dr Iqbal Survé and Sesona Mdlokovana|Published 2 hours agoAsk AI 4minDUT students and staff marched through Durban in silence as they honoured victims of gender-based violence and femicide and called for an end to violence, fear and silence. More than 60% of a sampled group of rape cases occurred at a residence, challenging the idea that violence against women is primarily a danger lurking somewhere outside the home. In response, the government has launched a three-month national campaign targeting femicide, domestic violence, gender inequality and male dominance, with an emphasis on prevention, reporting and prosecution.

Sixteen-year-old Formula 4 driver Gianna Pascoal is leveraging Heart Awareness Month to highlight the intense physical and cardiovascular demands of elite racing. But the comparison raises an important question for South Africa: what does emergency action actually look like when the crisis has already been formally recognised? And it should mean confronting the attitudes among men that normalise control, entitlement and violence against women. And it means men becoming part of the solution, not simply being told to condemn violence after another woman has died.

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News BRICSSouth Africa Declared GBVF a National Disaster. Image: IOLShe became the sixth woman whose body has been discovered across the broader Ekurhuleni area in the space of roughly two months. Police are investigating possible links between the cases, but have cautioned that it is too early to say whether a serial killer is responsible. That distinction matters for the investigation. But it should not distract from the bigger crisis. South Africa does not have a shortage of declarations about GBVF.

It has a shortage of consequences, protection and urgency.

What has been reported

Six bodies should force a different conversationThe case of 38-year-old Elizabeth "Tsontso" Moselakgomo has intensified public anger. Moselakgomo, a mother, disappeared after leaving home for a run. Her family later identified her body at the Germiston mortuary. Police have deployed specialised resources to investigate her death alongside the other killings. The circumstances surrounding the deaths are still being established. It would be irresponsible to declare that the women were killed by the same person before investigators have established that.

But six bodies in a concentrated geographical area demand an extraordinary response. Police have already deployed multidisciplinary investigators and forensic specialists.

What happens next

One suspect remains in custody in connection with the first body found in July. Investigators are now working to establish whether there are connections between the cases. The public therefore needs more than reassurance that investigations are under way. Because for women living in Ekurhuleni, the question is not whether authorities will eventually explain what happened. It is whether the state can prevent the next woman from becoming another case file. The numbers make the argument even harder to ignoreThe Ekurhuleni killings are unfolding against a national crisis.

SAPS recorded 569 women murdered between April and June 2026, alongside 9,201 reported rapes.

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