In the latest U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), published in September 2025, South Africa fell to the Tier 2 Watchlist.
CAPE TOWN – “We know firsthand the abuses of men who rent our bodies for their sexual gratification. The system of prostitution must end with us.” So says a growing number of survivors of the system of prostitution in response…
Herstory was made in the all-knowing halls of the South African Women's Parliament on Thursday 29 August when women from all over South Africa took over the National Assembly and were addressed as Honourable Members as they debated gender-based violence and celebrated the Women's Charter.
As South Africans, we find ourselves only days away from Women’s Month, yet once again our nation is making headlines for all the wrong reasons—this time, gender-based violence of the worst order.
“My fellow men, let’s keep our valuables in our trousers and use them for the good of humanity. Yes, I mean our wallets.
The trial of Philani Ntuli, the businessman accused of murdering 20-year-old Siam Lee, was due to finally start on Thursday in Durban. However, because the defence was not ready, it has been postponed once again
Our patriarchal society continues to perpetuate the system of prostitution and the system has always rendered poor black women vulnerable to exploitation mostly by white privileged men.”
The purpose of the meeting is to strategise for building the survivor movement and to ensure that survivor voices are heard and taken into account in the debate on legal reform of adult prostitution.
During January 2018, 20 year-old Siam Lee went missing from what is believed to be a brothel in Durban North. Her charred body was discovered two days later on a farm in New Hanover.
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Former Deputy Minister of Health and Founder of Cape Town based NPO Embrace Dignity, spoke out today on behalf of her organisation regarding the Sunday 24 March fatal stabbing of Ayanda Denge in her room at Ahmed Kathrada House.