Vanessa Govender

Vanessa Govender is a former SABC radio and award-winning ENCA television news reporter. She is an author of the children’s book, The Selfish Shongololo, the best selling memoir, Beaten But Not Broken, and the recently released memoir, The Village Indian. Follow her on X @Govender_VInstagram @vanessa_tedder

Legalising lynching - Palestinians only, Israel’s Apartheid 2.0

Vanessa Govender|Published

As the Israeli Knesset passes a controversial death penalty law targeting Palestinians, celebrate and scrutiny entwine in a narrative of oppression, discrimination, ...

Call it what it is - barbaric savagery, call each killer what they are - evil incarnate

Vanessa Govender|Published

This column stands as a damning indictment of the pervasive silence surrounding gender-based violence in South Africa. We must move beyond outrage on social media ...