If I'm still living in South Africa in 2030, I would have severely failed my 2 daughters. I refuse to raise them in a sick society that shows me daily that it's a matter of when, not if, they'll be assaulted and possibly killed. The pandemic in SA is #GBV.
I lost my mother to this societal sickness on 10/06/2013. She was murdered, strangled to death in her own house by her then boyfriend. Her crime was saying enough is enough. He was an abusive man, a reality hidden from me by her as I lived in Jhb and she back home in KZN.
I had to learn of this man's abuse during the court hearing. He confessed in court, on the stand, to physically abusing and then planning her murder when she dumped him. He said he refused for her to be with anyone and planned to take his and her life.
He came over to her house pretending to want to apologise and leave things on good terms but he was coming to murder my mother. He strangled her to death and didn't have the balls to follow through and kill himself.
His defence attorney pleaded to the judge for leniency when sentencing. He argued he's a 1st time offender and had kids. What a fucking joke our judicial system is because the judge, who was a black woman, acknowledged the plea for leniency and gave this murderer a 5 yr sentence.
5 years for murdering my mother in cold blood, because he's a 1st time offender. This man is out today and back with his children. That's what's deemed justice in our country.
I say today to the women of SA, you're on your own.
I say today to the women of SA, you're on your own.
The police won't catch these murderers and even if they do, they won't face justice. I lost my mother to this sickness but I refuse to lose my daughters to it. God give me the strength, wisdom and financial ability to leave South Africa because #GBV isn't going anywhere.
Reading the #TshegofatsoPule case yesterday on the anniversary of my mother's murder, it broke my heart into a million pieces and I officially gave up on this country delivering justice to our women. This country is sick & I'm sick of it. I don't have solutions. I just want out.
And if I feel like this than I don't know what SA women must be feeling. A week from now we would've have moved on to the next crisis and then be shocked when the next murder happens. This is sick. This society is sick.
