AmINext: South African women push back against gender-based violence via WMC's the_fbomb
On August 8, 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana went to a post office in Cape Town, South Africa — the city in which she was studying. While there, a post office worker, who has since been identified as Luyanda Botha, led Mrwetyana to believe her package wouldn’t be ready until later. When she returned, no one else was there and Mrwetyana was abducted, raped, and murdered by this man. and the BBC.
South Africans are generally socialized to worry about our safety and security every day of our lives. From insurance ads — like a recent one from the local insurance company, depicting burglars enjoying a break-in over Christmas while homeowners were away — to red signs that read"high smash” or “high hijacking zones" plastered across our cities, we’re constantly reminded that we’re in danger.
Although this violence takes many forms, gender-based and sexualized violence have gained new focus in South Africa in recent years. Femicide and rape crimes have increased at an
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