Dear men
Am I next? Is my friend, my sister, my colleague or someone’s daughter next?
Every day I ask myself, what makes me so different from the women and children who die helplessly at the hands of men?
From as young as two months old, we are molested, abducted, raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death by men.
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Every day when we leave home we wonder if will we ever return, or if we are we walking to our death.
It saddens me to learn that yet another woman or child has lost their life through violence.
I can’t help but wonder at the pain they felt – alone, and helpless.
The feeling of giving up and succumbing to your wounds, wondering…will they ever find my body? Will they ever know the truth or am I just another statistic to vanish without a trace?
The recent spate of killings has left me and many other women frightened and angry at our government for protecting these criminals.
Surely the grief the victims families have to endure is enough to beg the question of why we are wasting tax-payers’ money sending the culprits to prison.
Will they ever be rehabilitated because when they are released, most of them seem to commit the same crime.
Perhaps it’s time we had a referendum on the death penalty.
Perhaps this is the time for us to demand a database of these convicts and their crimes that can be made accessible to the public, because right now, we carry on as if everything is normal.
Uyinene Mrwetyane (19) was murdered at a post office!
A post office, in broad daylight, by a public servant who represents the same government that releases meaningless press statements at the wake of yet another senseless killing.
Babongile Nzama (38) was raped, stabbed 21 times and bludgeoned to death, allegedly at the hands of her ex-lover, right on our doorstep in Nyandezulu.
Both these women died in Women’s Month, and they are just two of many who are murdered every day of the year.
I mentioned these two women in particular because their stories are a reminder to us as the fairer sex that our killers could be in our homes, they could be our partners, friends or complete strangers.
They are among us, on our timelines, in our churches and at our workplaces.
To all men
Take a deep look at yourself at tell me if you are proud to be called a man in the wake of everything that’s happening in our society.
Because right now Sicela uxolo, Ons is baie jammer, and Sorry is not enough – we don’t deserve this!
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