Up to now, interventions for dealing with violence against women have been superficial, they have been half-hearted and they have been based on the wrong understanding of the root causes of the vulnerability of women.
This is so because we refuse to acknowledge that gender based violence and related anti social activities are reinforced even sustained by the deplorable general conditions of our people.
Therefore, a key to female emancipation is the emancipation for all. We must emphasise that transforming the lives of our people in the ghettos from one of the general structural violence as the mechanism to end of all violence including violence against women.
Our criminal justice system must not only be seen to be working when victims are from more affluent homes and families. The police in townships and villages must be