Cape Town anti-GBV march reflects on raising children amid femicide
Cape Town anti-GBV march reflects on raising children amid femicide in South Africa
A march against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide took place in Cape Town over the weekend, with a focus on the challenges faced by mothers in raising their children in the current climate of femicide in South Africa. Hundreds of participants walked from the Lighthouse at Sea Point Promenade along Beach Road to Queens Beach. The anti-GBV march was supported by organizations such as Women Fight Back and Cape Flats Stories.
Organizers sent a message of solidarity and support for the victims of femicide in Gauteng. Leigh-Ann Turner Gabriel, a participant in the march, was motivated to join the event following the murder of a 38-year-old Elizabeth "Tsontso" Moselakgomo in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg. Gabriel shared her thoughts on the matter, stating, "I have a seven-year-old daughter.
It feels like a crime having a daughter because we have to fear what’s going to happen to them, and then having sons, they’re always labelled as being the ones that are going to hurt women, so we’re trying to teach them that, to be better men."
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