Emotions run high as learners call for end to gender-based violence

Gender-based violence is on of many issues South Africa is facing as whole.

Last Friday, Vryheid Comprehensive Secondary School and the Youth Managers Foundation (YMF) – an organisation which brings change to communities, especially schools – tackled the issue of women and children abuse in the area.

Learners shared the stage, giving speeches on how they feel about gender-based violence and how it has affected them.

“If a man decides to lay a hand on you once, run away and never look,” said Thandanani Thabede, who shared his experience on how he had witnessed women abuse among his neighbours.

Poems and musical items by learners added to the emotion of the day.

One of the speakers of the day’s speaker, Sabelo used the phrase induku ayikaze ibe isixazululo (the stick has never been the solution) and urged men of all ages to protect, love and cherish women.

YMF chairperson, Siphesihle Njibe thanked principal, Mr F.D Maseko, teachers and learners for providing the platform to talk about this matter.

He concluded, “Stop gender-based violence.”