One in every three women killed by their partner in South Africa

We also played a feature produced by Cindy Witten on femicide. In 2006 it was reported that South Africa's femicide rate is the highest in the world. A study by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation one South African woman is killed every six hours by an intimate partner. Statistics showed that the Western Cape had the highest number of femicide cases with about 37 deaths, and KZN the lowest, with 21 deaths. With the recent report about the kidnapping and death of 20-year-old Stellenbosch University student Erin van Rensburg, many have raised concerns about the amount of women’s deaths that take place in our country.