We don't live in a democracy

When I walked down Wale Street in Cape Town all dressed in black on Thursday many black-clad people came out of the side streets, like tributaries of a black riIf we could have flown we would have hovered over Parliament like an ominous cloud drawing energy from our collective trauma and rage.Ten in the week – a brutal week in South Africa – with intimate femicide spiralling out of control.

Many of us were out there in the rolling mass action that continued for months to make the country ungovernable. And out of that devastation our democracy was born.So, let’s talk about democracy. This is a democracy in which we lose on average 10 women a week to rape and murder of uncommon brutality.

The theme was strengthening the national gender machinery – structures in the state to promote gender equality – as a response to gender-based violence. Did the 44% of women MPs and 50% of women ministers come to the protest outside Parliament – to see how angry women and our male allies are? The minister of women, youth and people with disabilities said on radio after Mrwetyana’s death that men should protect us, but it is men who are killing us.

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