New blog: How to read gender-based violence against women and children in South African media
In a special post for the ASCL Africanist Blog, Baleseng Maeneche, winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024, explores her thesis 'Media representations of male perpetrators of violence against women and children: A decolonial feminist analysis'.
The visibility of violence in South African news media is painfully selective, she writes. This blog is a reflection and presentation of case studies that starts with life in a former African mining hub and follows the discourse of those realities into the newsroom.
Posted on 8 October 2025, last modified on 28 October 2025