A 2004 national study on femicide in South Africa estimated that a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six hours. Of the cases in which relationship status could be established, 50.3 per cent of the women were killed by an intimate partner. Furthermore, a racial analysis indicates that women of colour are disproportionately affected by such killings. The rate for coloured women was 18.3 per 100,000 women; for African women it was 8.8, and for white women, 2.8.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences