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South African Women March Against Gender-Based Violence
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK | PRETORIA (IDN) – Thousands of women and gender activists joined together on the first day of Women’s Month to protest the rising incidence of gender-based violence across the country.
The movement’s Brenda Madumise said the marchers, under the banner #TheTotalShutdown, were taking control of their destiny.
“We are saying that we had enough,” said Patience Mpani from the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. “We are dying every day and we cannot continue to live like this. It can’t be business as usual in South Africa when women are dying every day.”…