Southern Africa’s women are online, but the law protecting them has yet to follow

A SADC Parliamentary Forum and Equality Now policy brief finds that technology-facilitated gender-based violence remains poorly addressed in law across the 16 SADC member states, with only five countries clearly treating it as an offense. Lesotho adopted a Counter Domestic Violence Act in 2022 that addresses technological abuse but faces challenges in cybercrime legislation, while the region's parliaments have yet to fully domesticate the SADC Model Law on Gender-Based Violence adopted in Lesotho in 2021.

Source: Lesotho Times