WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019

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If government cannot in the least commit resources or put together a coordination effort to combat gender based violence and femicide, then you best believe South Africa, that they cannot implement any interventions. That forfeits their right to stand here at this podium and speak about the fight against gender based violence and femicide. I thank you.

Deputy Speaker, it was the psychiatrist from Martinique, Frantz Fanon who upon examining the conditions under which people lived, boldly proclaimed when we revolt it is not for a particular culture, we revolt simply because for many reasons we can no longer breathe.

There are 52 420 reported reasons why South African women feel they cannot breathe and that perhaps the only avenue left for us is to revolt by any means possible.

There are a number of reported sexual assault cases for the previous financial year. Thousands more cases of rape, assault, harassment of women have never been