ArticlesMediaOur News and EventsCSVR Announces New Executive DirectorThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is pleased to announce that Ms Teresa Yates will assume the role of Executive Director, effective 1 August 2026. Ms Yates' extensive legal career spans strategic litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and policy reform. She has led key structural design frameworks for the South African Department of Land Affairs, advocating for… Read More CSVRJuly 30, 2026
ArticlesMediaChildren and Youth, Gender-based Violence, Violence PreventionWhen Yes is Not Free – Power Coercion and Consent in South AfricaWHEN “YES” IS NOT FREE: POWER, COERCION, AND CONSENT IN SOUTH AFRICA Nearly seven women are killed by an intimate partner every day, a figure that has remained unchanged since 2009, placing South Africa among the countries with the highest femicide rates in the world. At the same time, more than 100,000 girls between the ages of 10 and 19… Read More Mary Izobo and Cathy-Ann PotgieterApril 10, 2026
ArticlesMediaInequalities, ReconciliationRights on Paper, Inequality in Practice: South Africa's 30 Years of Unfinished Constitutional PromiseRights on Paper, Inequality in Practice: South Africa’s 30 Years of Unfinished Constitutional Promise Thirty years after the adoption of South Africa’s Final Constitution – hailed as one of the most progressive in the world; the question remains: Has it delivered meaningful socio-economic transformation for the majority of its people? The Constitution of South Africa, together with its justiciable Bill… Read More Annah Moyo-KupetaMarch 30, 2026
ArticlesMediaOur News and EventsGender-based Violence, Psychosocial Support, Trauma Counselling, Violence and TraumaIn the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and JusticeIn the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice This article is published as part of the CSVR Justice Op-Ed Series for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The Bolwana* and Vayo* families are currently at odds with one another over the murder of their first granddaughter, who was brutally killed… Read More Lethabo MotloungDecember 15, 2025
ArticlesMediaOur News and EventsGender-based Violence, Psychosocial SupportBehind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based ViolenceBehind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence What happens when the very technologies built to connect and empower us become weapons of surveillance, control, and gendered harm? Over the last decade, digital tools and online spaces have transformed how people organise, mobilise, and advocate for gender equality and social justice. Movements like #MeToo, #BringBackOurGirls, the Gen Z… Read More Lesego SekhuDecember 12, 2025
ArticlesMediaOur News and EventsMEDIA STATEMENT: ABDUCTION OF 315 SCHOOLGIRLS AND WOMEN IN NIGERIAThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) expresses its deepest alarm and unequivocal condemnation of the abduction of 315 schoolgirls and teachers from St Mary's Catholic School in north-central Nigeria over the weekend. This horrifying incident perpetrated in a context of escalating violence against women and girls represents yet another assault on the rights, dignity, and safety… Read More CSVRNovember 25, 2025
