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Posted inEquality, Gender violence, News/Politics

Behind the shock and awe, the violence is ‘normal’

by Melanie Judge 3 April 20138 April 2013

The murders of miners at Marikana by brutal state apparatus, the rape and murder of Anene Booysen by a group of men, and the killing of Reeva Steenkamp by her male lover have common threads. All three reflect a confluence of systems of violence that span centuries. Each is a product of past and prevailing […]

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