PHOTOS+VIDEOS: Women Shutdown the country in their red and black
Today women from all over South Africa came together to protest gender-based violence and child abuse.
Today women from all over South Africa came together to protest gender-based violence and child abuse.
An organisation of feminists and gender activists started a group on Facebook called The Total Shutdown: Intersectional March Against Gender-Base-Violence (GBV) about a year ago, the group called on women, gender non-conforming people and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA) communities to join today’s protests, staged around the country, against gender-based violence and child abuse.
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Women in Gauteng started the match at the Union Buildings in Pretoria a few minutes ago, the march will be to deliver a memorandum to parliament and organisers are demanding a meeting with the president.
Early this morning women gathered in their red and black outfits at bus pick up spots and sang struggle songs in the busses on their way to Pretoria.
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The colour black represents mourning and red symbolises is the blood of the thousands of women lost to femicide and gender-based violence.
According to one of the organisers of the march, Avela Faye, the shutdown is to get the government’s attention because they are too silent about what’s happening to the women in this country.
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Many of the protestors present today have shared their stories of abuse and have said that this march is only the beginning of a possible change in the justice system.
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