Introduction
Research focused on sexual violence on South African campuses has shown that it is a significant social problem that has negative health and academic outcomes for affected female students. A recent survey showed that about 20% of a sample of female students in selected public university and technical college campuses experienced sexual victimisation in the preceding year [However, there is limited evidence on effective sexual violence prevention interventions in South African campus settings which necessitates urgent scholarly work in this area [Several sexual violence risk reduction and resistance interventions that target women have been found effective in reducing female students’ experience of sexual violence in high income campus settings [Other aspects of effective sexual violence risk reduction and resistance interventions that assist in reducing women’s risk of sexual victimisation include the empowerment of women by equipping them with skills needed to address emotional and cognitive barriers and building their confidence to use verbal, physiological and physical self-defence or resistance strategies [Sexual intimate partner violence (SIPV) occurs within the context of gender inequitable relationships and women who experience SIPV are at increased risk of experiencing other forms of intimate partner violence [While campus sexual risk reduction interventions have been evaluated in HIC settings, with fewer interventions proven effective, such intervention work in low and middle income country (LMIC) and Southern African campus settings is emergent [