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16 Days of Activism How SA's TV news gets it wrong

Sisanda Nkoala is a Senior Lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) media department. She also serves as the Faculty Language and Transformation Coordinator for the CPUT Faculty of Informatics and Design.

She holds a PhD in Rhetoric Studies at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Rhetoric Studies. Her research interests are in the intersection of rhetoric, language and media. She also publishes on multilingualism in higher education and journalism studies. She is a former awardwinning journalist.

South Africa is a country that experiences a very high level of GBV. During the UN’s annual international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based

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