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7 February 2025 Article

The National Register for Sex Offenders: Nowhere left to hide

On 18 November 2024 the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) released and handed over to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) a groundbreaking national study on gender-based violence (GBV), which revealed the extent of the crisis that continues to devastate individuals and communities across our country. It showed, among other things, that 33,1% of women in South Africa aged 18 years and older had experienced physical violence in their lifetime – which translates to an estimated 7,310,389 women – and that 9,9% of women had experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, which translates to 2,150,342 women across thecountry.

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