South Africa has a femicide rate that is six times the world average. Over 2,500 women aged
14 years or older are murdered every year, the majority of these women killed by an intimate …

Most female homicides are perpetrated by an intimate partner, but this is not reflected in
news media coverage of the murders of women, which tends to focus on killings committed …

This article reflects on the murders of Reeva Steenkamp (2013), Jayde Panayiotou (2015),
Susan Rhode (2016) and Karabo Mokoena (2017) and questions how victims of intimate …

Background In most countries, reliable national statistics on femicide, intimate partner
femicide (IPF), and non-intimate partner femicide (NIPF) are not available. Surveys are …

Researchers responding to femicide and violence against women and girls (VAWG) face
significant challenges around accessing complete and coordinated data. To delve further …

Little is known about the prevalence and dynamics of femicide, a persistent form of violence
against women and girls, due to challenges associated with its documentation. Research by …

When a woman is killed she is most likely to be murdered by an intimate partner. This form of
homicide known as intimate femicide is conceptualised to be the most extreme …

In recent years, the notion of femicide has expanded in social, criminological and
epidemiological research to grasp the basic differences underpinning the killing of a female …

Femicide is neither inevitable nor excusable, though the mainstream media often represents
it as such. This chapter explores existing research on media representations of femicide …

How are we to think about femicide in South Africa–a country with one of the highest rates of
gendered violence, globally? The rate of women murdered in South Africa is around five …