South Africa: Why We've Had Enough of This Casual Harassment

opinion

Last week one of our reporters proposed that we begin a new project, a series perhaps, that deals with the harassment that South African women face as they go about their lives each day.

"Street harassment is such a big problem in SA and there's really nobody talking about it until girls are caught on CCTV camera being hounded by a group of men at Noord taxi rank. Those girls were not an exception, that incident just happened to have been caught on camera," our reporter, Pontsho Pilane, said.

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