Despite its widespread incidence and heinous effects, domestic violence is still often considered to be a family affair; something that occurs in the private realm and is kept secret. The Agenda journal questions this assumption and explores domestic violence in the hope that the information, proposals and strategies are kept at the forefront of our work, our research and, indeed, our consciousness.

EDITORIAL:
Domestic Violence.
Gil Harper



ARTICLE:
Across the public/private boundary: contextualising domestic violence in South Africa.
Shahana Rasool Bassadien and Tessa Hochfeld

BRIEFING:
Searching the dungeons beneath our religious discourses: the case of violence against women and the "unholy trinity".
Sarojini Nadar

POETRY:
Poem for Nthabiseng Nkone.
Bronwen Eckstein

ARTICLE:
Money matters: structural problems with implementing the DVA.
Dee Smythe and Lillian Artz

PERSPECTIVE:
Gender-based violence: the lesbian and gay experience.
Evashnee Naidu and Nonhlanhla Mkhize

POETRY:
Fallacies
Obododimma Oha

ARTICLE:
Exploring violence in the lives of women and girls incarcerated at three prisons in Gauteng Province, South Africa. 
Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Mike Greyling

 

FOCUS:
Restorative justice and domestic violence: some exploratory thoughts.
Hema Hargovan

POETRY:
Today she is not here.
Gabeba Baderoon

BRIEFING:
Violation of women's property rights within the family.
Mary Adebola Ajayi and Abiodun Olukayode Olotuah

INTERVIEW:
Advocacy-focused interventions for policy development and implementation.
Nkululeko Malinga interviews Alice Kwaramba

BRIEFING:
The Indian family: too sacrosanct to touch? Indian women's movement and civil society's responses to incest abuse.
Nisha

POETRY:
why you can never love me.
Bernedette Muthien

POETRY:
untitled
Thung-Thung Letele

REVIEW:
Spiral of Entrapment: Abused Women in Conflict with the Law.
Shereen Mills

ARTICLE:
"It is better to beat her": male youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal speak on violence in relationships.
Reshma Sathiparsad

POETRY:
My father is large.
Vanessa-Lynn Neophytou

FOCUS:
Keeping an eye on the campaign: monitoring media coverage of the 16 Days of Activism: No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign.
Gemma Harries and William Bird

POETRY:
How did it go so wrong?
Vangile Gantsho

PERSPECTIVE:
Progress and challenges in the gender-based violence sector.
Lungiswa Memela and Cheryl Ayogu

IN BRIEFS:
Bobby van der Merwe

POETRY:
beastly man
Mphutlane Wa Bofelo

WRITING PROGRAMME:

How to avoid falling into your own plot holes.
Christine Davis

Born to suffer
Nompumelelo Manyaapelo



Cookie's story
Cookie Edwards

Through the eyes and hands of a volunteer.
Bernie Dorkin

Strategies to empower abused women: a work in progress.
Darshini Moodley

POETRY:
Their way of thinking.
Michelle McGrane