petticoat.hyena (60)in #domestic • 6 years agoPart 1: What three different cases of violence sayDuring the week of 3 March three women – Elizabeth Koue, Babes Wodumo and Karima Brown – provided us with a glimpse into the economy of public sympathy in South Africa. By that I…petticoat.hyena (60)in #shelters • 6 years agoCosting shelter servicesYesterday the National Shelter Movement and the Hlanganisa Institute for Development in South Africa launched the report 'What is Rightfully Due: Costing the operations of…petticoat.hyena (60)in #domestic • 6 years agoIntroducing the importance of domestic violence shelters in South AfricaIn S v Baloyi the Constitutional Court placed a clear duty on the state to address domestic violence. As the form of violence most frequently experienced by women, this…petticoat.hyena (60)in #hiv • 6 years agoPost-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV-infection after rape: not just swallowing a pillSouth Africa provides rape complainants with a 28-day course of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent infection with HIV. This course of anti-retrovirals is not easy to…petticoat.hyena (60)in #specialised • 6 years agoPart 2: What does justice cost?Today's post looks at the role of prosecutors, who are also crucial to the creation of specialised court responses to rape. Directives issued by the National Prosecuting…petticoat.hyena (60)in #courts • 6 years agoWhat Does Justice Cost?Justice is the colour of money and the weight of numbers – which is just another way of saying that justice depends as much on the mundane art of administration, as it does on…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoPart 2: Rape trials and the art of warYesterday's post looked at cross-examination as a set of tactics. Today's follow-up looks at the language and grammar of cross-examination, with grammar referring to the…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoRape Trials and the Art of WarLast week South Africans were transfixed by the cross-examination of Cheryl Zondi, one of the complainants in the trial of Timothy Omotoso, a pastor accused of rape and…petticoat.hyena (60)in #writing • 6 years agoLearning to writeI have been trying to write again: Business Day, News24 and the Sunday Times. But too many years of writing horrible, pedestrian reports in the passive voice ((outputs were;…petticoat.hyena (60)in #shelters • 6 years agoShelter in South AfricaThe first domestic violence shelter in South Africa was opened by People Opposing Women Abuse in 1984. A second shelter was opened by Rape Crisis Cape Town the following year.…petticoat.hyena (60)in #endings • 6 years agoWhen an end to limbo becomes possibleIt's taken 14 months - yes, 14 months - to do something very simple: convert a csv. file to excel and then import it into SPSS. I almost cannot comprehend why I made this so…petticoat.hyena (60)in #paedophilia • 6 years agoPart 2: The paedophile in South AfricaThe paedophile did not always exist as a psychological type waiting to be discovered. The second part of this article provides an overview of some of the historical factors that…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoPart 1: A history of race and rape in South AfricaLate in September a 20 year-old man was caught raping a 7 year-old girl in a restaurant toilet. It was an extraordinarily brazen act which has outraged most South Africans. What…petticoat.hyena (60)in #habits • 6 years agoDay 1: creating new habitsWillpower, I have read, comes with the entrenchment of better habits. And if these habits are not made, well, habitual, then I am destined for a life of chaos and…petticoat.hyena (60)in #taxes • 6 years agoDeath and taxes, or what you can't hide from foreverI last submitted my taxes in November of 2012 when I stopped working full-time and became a student. My income became more erratic and I more protective of what I had earned. I…petticoat.hyena (60)in #rape • 6 years agoWar and epidemic, or how we've been thinking about rapeFinally, after months of confusion, I woke up with the title to my PhD. This is 'War and Epidemic, or the Science of Rape.' The departure point will be the 2012 UN meeting in…petticoat.hyena (60)in #social • 6 years agoRanting and raging when things fall apartFor the last two/three years I've been tracking what's happening to women's services in South Africa so know it's bad. Because we all believe in the gospel of prevention now…petticoat.hyena (60)in #frankenstein • 6 years agoA science of rape?What is a science of rape? It might be something like Frankenstein - a combination of hubris, an unwarranted faith in science, coupled to the belief that behaviour can be…petticoat.hyena (60)in #archaeology • 6 years agoHistories and their timesI started out writing in anger about today's Total Shutdown March, which I didn't attend - partly due to PhD deadlines and partly because I cannot bring myself to ask government…petticoat.hyena (60)in #sorting • 6 years agoOrdering people, places and thingsToday's reading focused on the way we sort things out - how we constantly classify, categorise and order things, often using particular standards. I'm still reading the…