Shock harassment clip

The Soul City Institute for Social Justice has released a social experiment video to drum up support for the #SafeTaxiNow charter for women, following recent attacks on women and children.

The social experiment shows two women walking silently with a hidden camera through several taxi ranks to highlight how women are harassed daily. In the video, men can be seen making random comments such as “hello baby, hello”, Ao mphe di-number (give me your contact) digits” and “Hawu why are you walking away?” More than 150 incidents of harassment were recorded during 10 hours of filming.

Advocacy manager Matokgo Makutoane said the institute was consulting with the public, and especially women to come up with a national safe taxis charter to make public transport safe for women, to highlight gender-based violence.

“We want to put pressure on the police and criminal justice system to hold perpetrators to account.” – Nokuthula Zwane