READER LETTER | Why the silence when women are perpetrators of GBV?

A reader asks why there is seemingly silence when women are perpetrators of GBV.
A reader asks why there is seemingly silence when women are perpetrators of GBV.
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In August, the media reported on the daily abuse and murders of women and children in droves.

In September, we were exposed to some of the clandestine activities perpetrated by women against men, such as the hiring of hitmen by wives and boyfriends to kill husbands and partners.

Though there are many incidents of this nature, it is pertinent to list the double murder case in Elliotdale, the killing of a prosecutor in Cradock, the current matter involving the ex-policewoman who [allegedly] killed family members and her boyfriend to benefit from funeral policies and a female sangoma who kidnapped and tied up a woman for failing to pay for services she rendered.

All of these amount to GBV but gender activists who were vocal and visible when this was done to women are silent as a night during lockdown when women are the perpetrators. 

It is against this background that I am calling for a change of the goalposts. — Thanduxolo Zimba, Qonce


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