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South African NGO challenges dominant ideas about how to be a man
▻http://africasacountry.com/south-african-ngo-challenges-dominant-ideas-about-how-to-be-a-man

Even though the overall media attention for the matter has faded these past few months, women in #South_Africa continue to be brutalized, harassed, assaulted and murdered by the country’s men (mostly in the domestic sphere by known perpetrators) — we wrote about that here. A few weeks ago, black lesbian woman #Duduzile_Zozo, was raped [...]

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A History of Violence
▻http://africasacountry.com/sexual-violence-part-2

Tweet While South African men seem to increasingly realize that it is their responsibility to do something about the endemic levels of violence against girls and women, the resulting initiatives have often taken the form of symbolic gestures, such as marches and protests. A telling example is the #Real_Men_March, organized by the conservative [...]

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