OPINION | What do men say about abuse of women?

Isn’t it startling how gender-based violence in SA continues to make headlines relentlessly, and profoundly, at institutions of higher learning.
The recent video of a male student assaulting a female student at the University of Fort Hare Alice campus has trended on social media platforms. It came after many resistance phenomena such #MenAre Trash, #NotInMyName and #TotalShutDown which aimed to rectify this social ill. The assault at UFH followed the suicide of Rhodes student Khensani Maseko who was allegedly raped by her boyfriend...

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