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Gender-Based Violence In South Africa

South Africa has one of the highest gender based violence rates in the world.

In fact some experts have said that it is comparable to countries at war.

South African Femicide is five times higher than the global average.

A woman is killed every four hours in South Africa.

South African Staticics show that in 2017/18 for every 100,000 adult women 15.2 were murdered.

A number of media reports and goverment statements said that inbetween 2015 and 2016/17 femicide in South Africa had increased by 117%.

We can no longer be silent.

We need to take a stand

We need to end the femicide

We need to end the war on women.

The father of our country Nelson Mandela did not

Spend 27 years in prison

and dedicate 64 years of his life

to this country just for it to end up in the state it is in.

As our Anthem sings ;

‘United we shall stand.’

we must come together in our

love for our mothers, aunts, sisters, wives, daughters

in order to fight against gender based violence.

We need to unite as

A population

A nation

but most of all

A community

in order to face this issue.

In the same way we did during apartheid.

In the same way Mandela taught us to.

‘Let us live and strive for freedom’

We need to strive for the freedom

to go out in public without the fear of falling victim to violence.

Please share this post on all of your socials to bring to light this issue.

Linked below are two petitions:

This one calling on the South African goverment to declare gender based violence a national emergency.

This one demanding that the death penalty be brought back to those who commit violence against women.

Please sign and share.

Bibliography

Alberton Record

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Written by Kate Wilconson

Published 5 September 2019