What do you think about…
With gender-based violence cases continuously rising and August being national Women’s Month, The Rep intern Chuma Joni took to the streets to ask local residents what they thought society should do for the women in this country.
Abrie Erasmus from Komani
Children should be taught at a young age how to treat other human beings. Churches should also preach about these things so that children can be taught.
Garth van Heerden
from Top Town
The answer is to arrange workshops for men so they learn to treat women better, and understand women better because there are misunderstandings resulting in violence. We must groom our young boys now and the government must come up with programmes that will assist young people to become better men.
Gcobokazi Ntloko from Ezibeleni
We should groom the young
people at an early stage. If they are groomed early, we will have less GBV. The government should create jobs for the young people because now they end up using drugs that lead them into developing anger and they take out their frustrations on women.
Mbuyiselo Siyolo from Komani
GBV in most cases is made by divisions. What causes divisions is that young people do not have anything to do in order to have a living
or to be happy and so that leads them into violence. What can reduce this is job creation. I believe when everyone has something to do, no-one will be violating other people’s rights.
Oyama Mchekem from Grey Street
We can start by making information available in youth centres and schools, providing accessible information about GBV. A child should be familiar with such things at school at a younger age.