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<h6><span style="color: #423434;">&#8216;We&#8217;ve had enough! We are tired of being victims&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423434;">&#8216;Women in Mzansi are hurt and angry about what has been happening to their sisters!,&#8217; chanted semi-nude students protesting femicide in SA</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423434;">Women students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus held a march against the brutal killings and rapes of women on Wednesday</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423434;">They marched topless to the Soshanguve Police Station, saying two students were raped two weeks ago and they didn’t feel safe in the area or in the country </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423434;">Protesters demanded protection an the speedy conclusion of open rape cases at the school</span></h6>
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<h6 class="articleImagePos1Caption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-329119" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Female-students-from-Tshwane-University-of-Technology-Soshanguve-campus-march-to-Soshanguve-police-to-protest-gender-based-violence-4-1.jpg" alt="Female students from Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve campus march to Soshanguve police, to protest gender-based violence 4" width="678" height="446" />The female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, marching to the police station</strong></h6>
<div class="articleImagePos1Caption"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Women in Mzansi are hurt and angry about what has been happening to their sisters! they chanted.</span></div>
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<p>Female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus in South Africa on Sept 4, held a march against the brutal killings and rapes of women in their school, an epidemic of &#8216;femicide&#8217; sweeping the nation.<br />
Spurred by the rape and brutal killings of two female students in the past two weeks, the students marched topless to the Soshanguve Police Station, stating that they didn’t feel safe in the area or anywhere else in the country.<br />
According to the protest leader Twinky Nxumalo, they want the authorities to ensure their security and welfare.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-329094" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-female-students-at-Tshwane-University-of-Technology’s-Soshanguve-campus-marching-to-the-police-station-2-3935796585-1568138919219.jpg" alt="The female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, marching to the police station 2" width="955" height="751" /><strong>&#8216;We&#8217;ve decided to march topless to provoke rapists. “We want them to see us, because even if we are topless that mustn’t make them force themselves on us,”&#8217; &#8211; Protest leader Twinky Nxumalo</strong></h6>
<p>Led by march convener and Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania provincial leader, Twinky Nxumalo, the students marched to the Soshanguve police station.<br />
The SA Students Congress, Democratic Alliance Student Organization, SA Democratic Students Movement and Student Christian Organization joined the march.<br />
The students, some in black to symbolize mourning, others bare-breasted while others wore only bras, filled roads surrounding the campus singing songs that asked men to stop violating them.<br />
Nxumalo revealed that a week earlier, the African Women’s Organisation at TUT Soshanguve campus invited her to speak at a Women’s Month event. She used the platform to query the relevance of the commemoration while women were still being raped and killed [all over the country].<br />
“Comrades told me that their daughters were raped at the south campus that and that another student had committed suicide after she was assaulted,” said Nxumalo.<br />
Nxumalo said two days later she was informed that another two female students at the school had been raped.<br />
“The victim told me that three robbers were angry because she had nothing of value other than her phone, repeatedly raped her then forced her to knock on the door of another female student, whom they also raped”.<br />
Local police acknowledged that a case of robbery and rape has been opened: “We are continuing with the investigation. So far, no arrests have been made,” a police spokesperson said.</p>
<h6 class="articleImagePos1Caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-329093" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-female-students-at-Tshwane-University-of-Technology’s-Soshanguve-campus-marching-to-the-police-station-1-1939746003-1568139107207.jpg?ssl=1&;w=423" alt="The female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, marching to the police station 1" width="1140" height="1410" /></h6>
<p>The TUT students bravely marched to Soshanguve police station and the streets surrounding their campus to demand protection an the speedy prosecution of rape cases that are currently open.<br />
“Two students were raped in their rooms outside campus last Thursday and their landlady couldn’t help them. We are not happy and want to be heard.”<br />
She said they handed over a memorandum to the police.<br />
“We demand them to patrol where students live so these type of things don’t happen.<br />
“We expect landlords to make sure we live in safe places,” she said.<br />
Twinky said they decided to march topless to provoke rapists. “We want them to see us, because even if we are topless that mustn’t make them force themselves on us.”<br />
“We’ve had enough. Women have been silent and it’s time to solve this,” another protester, Lerato Marang said.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-329101" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Female-students-at-Tshwane-University-of-Technology’s-Soshanguve-campus-marching-to-the-police-station-3.jpg" alt="Female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, marching to the police station 3.JPG" width="882" height="647" /><strong>TUT students marched to Soshanguve police station and the streets surrounding their campus to demand protection an the speedy conclusion of open rape cases in the school</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-329112" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Female-students-from-Tshwane-University-of-Technology-Soshanguve-campus-march-to-Soshanguve-police-to-protest-gender-based-violence-5-1.jpg" alt="Female students from Tshwane University of Technology, Soshanguve campus march to Soshanguve police, to protest gender-based violence 5.JPG" width="675" height="449" /></strong> <strong>“We’ve had enough. Women have been silent and it’s time to solve this,” protesters said</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-329098" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Female-students-at-Tshwane-University-of-Technology’s-Soshanguve-campus-demand-protection-from-landlord-of-Rape-Den-1.jpg" alt="Female students at Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, demand protection from landlord of Rape Den 1.JPG" width="672" height="451" /><strong>The students who also called for the prosecution of a local landlord who has a record of raping female students who rented his property</strong></h6>
<p>The female students marched on to a private student accommodation, that has been labeled as a rape den to demand protection from the landlord.<br />
She said they wanted the death penalty back.</p>
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Female students in South Africa march against the brutal killings and rapes of women sweeping the country
