‘Bring back the night’ walk in support of GBVF
Community Safety MEC Florence Radzilani was among those who spearheaded the 5km walk from the SABC park to the Jack Botes hall.
POLOKWANE – In response to gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), the Networking HIV and Aids Community of Southern Africa in partnership with officials from the Office of the Premier, Chupu Mathabatha, Social Development and the police, marched in the city’s streets last Thursday evening under the banner ‘Bring back the night’, with the idea of claiming back the safety of especially women and girls, suffering at the hands of abusers.
This, however, without a limitation to say that males do not face abuse from their gendered counterparts, Acting Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba remarked.
Community Safety MEC Florence Radzilani was among those who spearheaded the 5km walk from the SABC park to the Jack Botes hall.
The next day, experts in the fight against GBVF gathered at The Ranch Resort to discuss the plight of perpetrators and victims.
“The walk attracted sex workers along Bok Street who joined in advocating for a safer working environment with clients,” a follow-up statement from the premier’s office read.
Some civilians concluded that harsher punishments needed to be imposed for the long standing plight to end GBVF, an assertion Ramathuba agreed with.
Some argued that the publication of perpetrators’ names in the national register to mediate the risk of GBVF, was a necessary punishment.
