DOMESTIC TERROR, intimate partner violence in South Africa

216pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

Multi-media journalist, author and violence researcher Dr Nechama Brodie on decades of brutal domestic violence and coercive control, women’s changing rights and current legal protections.

Nechama Brodie is a lecturer at the Wits Centre for Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she also heads the Wits Justice Project, a public-interest justice journalism programme. Her books include Femicide in South Africa and Farm Killings in South Africa;  the urban histories The Joburg Book and The Cape Town Book, and the novels Knucklebone and Three bodies. She lives in Johannesburg.