Advocacy group, Women For Change has criticised South Africa’s (SA) legislative on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) saying it’s good only on paper.

SA across social media have turned their profile pictures purple in solidarity with a nationwide shutdown against GBVF set to take place on November 21.

The demonstrations aim to highlight the social and economic impact of women’s absence by protesters refraining from all forms of paid and unpaid labour for a day.

This is just a day before the G20 Leaders’ Summit.

Group’s Michael Benevolent-Masina, “We, in putting this campaign just the day before the G20, is our way of saying, actually, before we even talk about progress in our country, can we talk about the current state of our country.

And that is the lived experiences of women and children, as well as members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex, community that are killed and slain every single day. And those numbers keep rising and rising. And that has been left silent by the very people who are meant to be protecting us and the very people who are supposed to be our leaders. So that is definitely not a coincidence.
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