• Soul City Media Booklet

Contact Information

• Domestic Violence Service Providers Directory
  Women face the threat and live with the fear of violence against them, on a daily basis. In a crisis situation assistance seems remote. Responding to the need for a listing of organisations that provide help, Agenda has compiled a directory of resources for you to use and share with others.
  (Agenda No 36, March 1998)

• National Network on Violence Against Women contact list

Organisations and their Resources

• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Gender Unit
  • Publications on Gender
  • The Best Kept Secret: Violence against Domestic Workers
    (Mmatshilo Motsei, 25/7/90)
  • Overcoming Endemic Violence Against Women
    (Lloyd Vogelman & Gillian Eagle, In Social Justice Vol. 18, Nos. 1-2, 1991)
  • A Triad of Oppression: violence, women and poverty
    (Noreen Callaghan, Brandon Hamber and Spiwe Takura)
  • Violent Crime: Rape
    (Lloyd Vogelman, In McKendrick, B. & Hoffman, W.C. (Eds), People and the Violence in South Africa, pp. 96-134, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1990)
  • War and the Making of Men and Women
    (Lisa Vetten, 16/8/98)
  • Reporting on Rape in South Africa
    (Lisa Vetten, 1998)
  • Demand for instant gratification an important factor in many rape cases
    (Gill Huber, Marilyn Donaldson, Mary Robertson and Mercy Hlongweni)
  • An overview of rape in South Africa
    (Mary Robertson)
  • Rape a symptom of transitional turmoil
    (Graeme Simpson, Mary Robertson and Brandon Hamber)
  • A Cry that No One Hears - Report on Study of Child Rape
    (Sharon Lewis, 1997)
  • Jack-asses and Jackrollers: Rediscovering Gender in Understanding violence
    (Graeme Simpson, 1992)
  • Adding up the Costs of Sexual Harassment
    (Lisa Vetten, 9/8/98)
• Commission on Gender Equality
  • Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission on Gender Equality Workshop on Violence Against Women in the Media
    (Commission on Gender Equality, Durban, 5/8/98)

• Gender Advocacy Programme

• Masimanyane Women Support Centre Profile
  • Plan for 16 Days of Activism Against Domestic Violence in Eastern Cape
    
  • 1998 Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights
    
  • Masimanyane Women's Support Centre First Progress Report June - November 1997
  • Directory of Violence Against Women Services in the Eastern Cape Project Proposal

• National Network on Violence Against Women: Constitution

• Nisaa Institute for Women's Development Brochure, June 1998
  • Support White Ribbon Campaign, 9/7/99
  • Survey: Political Parties and Violence against Women, 17/3/99
  • A Profile of the Consumers Served in Office Based Counseling at the NISAA Institute for Women's Development: 1995 - 1996
  • Women Abuse: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Indian Medical Practitioners in the Lenasia Area
  • Women Making a Fresh Start
    A booklet available from Nisaa Institute for Women's Development for women experiencing domestic violence and for their helpers.
  • Women Abuse in South Africa: An Exploratory Study
  • NISAA Items for Sale

• People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA)
  • Speak Out - Stop Rape - Petition
  • Woman Abuse: The Basic Facts
  • Helping a Woman Who is Being Abused
  • Myths & Misconceptions About Rape
  • Myths and Misconceptions About Battery
  • Rape Trauma Syndrome
  • Rape: The Basic Facts
  • A Woman You Care About Has Been Raped

• Rape Crisis, Cape Town
  Link to New Web Site
  • Rape Crisis Cape Town Invited to Help Kosovar Rape Survivors, 6/7/99

  • Rape Crisis Cape Town Quarterly Report, October/November/December 1997

• SACOPS
  South African Communities Organising for Public Safety (SACOPS) provides an extensive resource centre. The Security and Safety section is particularly relevant.

• Southern Metropolitan Local Council in partnership with CIETafrica, Project update no.1 January 1998

• Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to End Violence Against Women
  • National Legal Manual for Counsellors
    Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, 1998, R250
  • Defences for Battered Women Who Kill their Abusers
    An extract is from Tshwaranang's National Legal Manual for Counsellors of Abused Women which will be published in 1998
  • New Research Initiative on Gender Violence
    (Tshwaranang Update: Newsletter of the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to end violence against women, Vol. 01, No. 03 - September 1997)

• Transformation for Women in the Media (TWM)

• Unifem Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women

• Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women