The point of the female fear factory is to ensure that gender-based violence is incubated and nurtured long before the actual maiming and the actual murdering, mutating from the verbal to the psychological before going physical.
Some years ago, as an associate professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal, I went to the cinema in Pietermaritzburg. It was dark when the film ended. Walking through the corridors towards the parking lot, I noticed a woman in front of me. She looked nervously at me over her shoulder. I walked faster towards her, hoping to reassure her that I meant no harm.
Though I personally meant no harm, the woman did the right thing to distrust, fear and run away from me. Woman beaters, rapists and woman killers do not come with labels written on their foreheads. I may not have considered myself a perpetrator of violence against women, but in some ways, I am a beneficiary of partriarchy, conscious or unconscious, willing or unwilling.
on the occasion of whose adoption then President Thabo Mbeki delivered his lyrical “I am an African” speech; and certainly not the national anthem, which has since been “decolonised” by the Fallists.are those of gender-based violence — a scourge that is not limited by time or space. There is GBV in Slovo Park, Ivory Park, Olijvenhout Bosch and in Bram Fischer. There is GBV in the seemingly serene and gated communities of Kyalami, Mooifontein, Steyn City and Camps Bay.
Resplendent in the colourful apparels reflecting traditional, church, work and stokvel uniforms, the women stood tall at the entrance of Herbert Baker’s architectural behemoth, carrying placards that read: “Passes mean destitute children” and “With passes, we are slaves”.
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