Modise revealed on Monday the many hurdles she and other young women faced in the MK military camps. Not only from the struggle of running in iron-capped boots and threats of rape, but they also had to assert themselves as equals to their male comrades.
“I remember that in the first two weeks we got to Dar es Salaam, staying at those residences, a number of us, always fewer in number, overwhelmed by the young men who we stayed with, had to fight because there was an automatic belief by some of the young men that for as long as women were there, we would be able to service their needs.
She revealed how, due to their youth, they had no idea of what was happening in the countries they were going to. “Our first hurdle might seem like a joke today but when we came into the MK, the men did not know how to [address] us.
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