Activists have chosen to highlight the continued abuses faced by women in the form of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) in the country – pointing to having little to celebrate.
Germanos noted law enforcement’s inability to catch perpetrators of sexual violence and violence, no specialised programmes to address GBVF at schools, and no psycho-social services offered by the government to violence prone communities.The Embrace Project has also written to President Cyril Ramaphosa, doubled as a petition signed by 5 000 people.
Anglican Church reverend June Dolley-Major with supporters and survivors of sexual violence, held a “Walk of Prayer, Walk for Justice’’, on Monday from Zevenwacht Mall to Robert Sobukwe Road. Dolley-Major said the walk was to send a message to survivors of sexual violence that they were not alone. Prayers were said at scenes where sexual violence had occurred.
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