While protests against gender-based violence seem to have abated, women's lives are still in danger. Activists have asked government to implement laws to make women safer. A group of young women have started handing out pepper spray to other women.
Days after it was revealed that missing 19-year-old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana had been raped and murdered at a post office, there was a palpable sense of anxiety among women about their safety. Marches to Parliament and to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) highlighting the crisis of gender-based violence happened against the backdrop of more women and girls going missing and subsequently being found dead.
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