'These murders are proof that the battleground is no longer nighttime and dodgy spaces ... even public spaces like the post office are no longer safe.' Via Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 3 - A ctivists have warned of an"epidemic" of violence against women in South Africa after a spate of killings and rapes sparked outrage in a country with one of the world's highest murder rates.
"We need the criminal justice system to be more accountable and the perpetrators of these violent crimes to face the full might of the law," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Thousands of South Africans on social media used the hashtag #AmINextProtest to call for criminal justice reform. Some pointed to the sad irony of the killing of boxer Leighandre"Baby Lee" Jegels which happened at the end of August, celebrated as Women's Month in the country.
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