violence against women

40 Tips for Men: Intro

Why do we need 40 Tips for Men? Today has been such a heavy day in South Africa as we heard the news so many of us were dreading about the fate of Uyinene Mrwetyana. The How of it made it seem so very much worse.  Which is why i thought it was essential to start up this series of tips aimed at helping men to be better than we currently are. Hopefully so [...]

By |2019-09-04T13:53:17+02:00September 2nd, 2019|#NotOnOurWatch, 40 Tips|6 Comments

Who will wail and sob for Uyinene Mrwetyana? And who will act?

Her name is Uyinene Mrwetyana. Or is it was? Already? Has it changed from an 'is' to a 'was' in just the few hours since they found her beaten and broken body? i didn't know her except for the missing posters all over social media and it didn't take long for that deep-knotted feeling in my gut to emerge. It feels like it's too late. We would have heard something by now. But you [...]

on why rape [and violence to women in general] HAS to be taken seriously, part 3: conversation with Claudine

[this is where this series started if you are needing to catchup to part i] so part two of this focus on rape/violence towards women related to this interaction i had with a certain hashtag on the Twitter: 'it revolved around the hash tag #SafetyTipsForLadies which someone that i followed tweeted and so i went to the link and read a bunch of them and was horrified by the way they seemed to be dealing [...]

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