Six women killed every day: SA’s deadly war on women continues
The brutal Women's Month murder of Amanda Kosani comes as new police statistics show six women are killed every day across South Africa.
During Women's Month in South Africa, the country continued its "deadly war on women." Six women were murdered each day in the month leading up to Amanda Kosani's tragic death. Kosani, a 37-year-old woman, was found brutally killed in an outside room of her relative's home in Newrest informal settlement in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape.
She was known to be battered and bruised, with her boyfriend arrested and charged with her murder the following morning. This grim reality was echoed across the nation, with 569 women murdered in the first quarter of the financial year, according to police statistics. Another 1,052 women survived attacks. In South Africa's Eastern Cape province, women face the highest risk of rape or murder, with a rape rate of 22.3 per 100,000 people and a murder rate of 15.8 per 100,000 people.
Despite efforts to save Kosani's life, her brutal killing occurred during the month set aside to honor women, highlighting the urgent need to address gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.
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