We began our last full day with Stop the Bus by hosting a community workshop out on Klipheuwel farm in Caledon. It was a good workshop and the team really felt like they reached the community.   Read the rest of this entry »

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Today was a very good day for all of us. It was a day of crossing boundaries. Our first stop, on the fifth day of Stop the Bus, was a community workshop at the library in Railton. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today was a very nice day for all of us. Generally it consisted of relaxing, enjoying each others company and having fun but of course we were also working on the personal growth aspect of our time on the bus and the goals we had set for ourselves as Rape Crisis volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today was Tuesday the 27th of November and we started the day by meeting up with Christine Bertsch from the Rape Crisis Centre in George.Christine was kind enough to take us around George and from here we visited Victim Support Rooms at police stations in George, Conville and Thembalethu. At the support rooms we met with the people in charge of receiving rape victims and we distributed leaflets and information about Rape Crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

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SABC TV 1 & 2 will be screening 16 films during the 16 Days of Activism illustrating the stories of South Africans who have suffered various forms of abuse including rape.   TV 1 will screen the films randomly througout their evening programmes.  Read more and find the TV 2 schedule in detail. Read the rest of this entry »

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It is a crime that fingers its grubby way into the very marrow of the self, lingering in the survivor’s feelings about herself, her sexuality, her relationships. Passing the Sexual Offences Bill, albeit far from perfect, is the least that can be done to begin restoring the souls of raped women and children — and of a nation ravaged by violence, writes Margie Orford.

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Today was a day of achievement and we began the campaign with a workshop in Oudtshoorn. The facilitators for the day were Nthuthu and Bajija. Edith assisted by completing the attendance register, handing out name labels, collecting statistics and distributing the resources. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today was the day for our campaign Stop The Bus to take off. We met early morning at the Rape Crisis office in Observatory and from there we started to pack our bus. Further more a journalist from The Guardian newspaper in London came to take our picture. Read the rest of this entry »

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Our Stop the Bus campaign will take off on Sunday the 25th of November.  We are all looking forward to going on this bus trip.  The preparation has been happening for a while - we have had meetings every Tuesday for the last couple of months, where our very experienced team has planned both weeks of the tour.  It has been an interesting process to be a part of.   In our meetings we have discussed the destinations of the two trips, which role each person will have on the bus and during the workshops and other activities.  Last Friday we had a teambuilding day and we went out ten pin bowling. Read the rest of this entry »