South Africa: Analysis - What Can South Africa Learn From India's Response to Sexual Violence?

analysis

South Africa and its fellow-BRICS member India may share many positive traits, including economic growth potential and regional leadership status, but also some more negative characteristics: high levels of inequality and high levels of violence against women, to name two (not unconnected).

Within months of each other, over late 2012/early 2013, India and South Africa both experienced the nation-rocking rape and murder of a young woman: the Indian medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey, and the Bredasdorp teenager Anene Booysen. But social and political responses differed greatly in the two countries, as a discussion last week in Cape Town revealed.

...

AllAfrica publishes around 400 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.

Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.