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South Africa: a dangerous place to be poor, black and a woman

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imageSouth Africa has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world. Reuters/Mike Hutchings

On paper, women in South Africa ought to enjoy the highest status globally. But this has not translated into fundamental freedoms of dignity, safety and security in practice.

Judged against global gender benchmarks, South African women appear to have surpassed...

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