Around the world, nations are learning to live with the constant threat of a deadly virus. In South Africa, women are forced to learn to live with the constant threat of violent and predatory men in all walks of their lives. The women of South Africa live their lives with the haunting reality that their demise won't amount to anything more than just another social media hashtag.

For years, especially now in this digital age where any person who owns a screen and has access to the internet is exposed and are witnesses to a multitude of heinous crimes committed by men against the women of South Africa on a daily basis. Because our women are dismissed and disappointed by the incompetency of the government, our women then bravely take to social media to disclose their trauma, outing the offender and his social circle in hopes of being supported but instead is met with mockery and disrespect. For years we've continued to sit back and watch our women suffer at the hands of fragile masculinity. We've watched the government deliberately turn a blind eye on the grief caused by the men on the lives of the women in this country. 

In South Africa, women don't have the privilege and the basic right to decline the sexual advances of scary men in fear that they could be lynched. In 2020, the women who dare to decline the sexual misconduct of a man are brutalised and humiliated. Everyday, women in South Africa wake up to a nightmare of having to live in a country fully populated with twisted, deadly men who believe that they can do as they please to their bodies and not face any repercussions because a woman's right to safety and security in South Africa is immaterial. Because the South African government doesn't prioritise the protection of women. 

The standard life experience of a woman in South Africa encounters sexual misconduct from a man at-least once a day. Do men choose to behave like this towards women because they believe that they're that much more superior? So superior that the crimes that they commit against women aren't deserving of any justice? Is the South Africa government really just going to just sit back and watch as men target and hunt women like they are animals? At what cost will our president Cyril Ramaphosa realise that the women of South Africa are being killed daily  for sport?

Please sign and support this petition. Please also create your own petitions, make threads, post on your pages and help awaken an uprise. I know that these may not be best methods that will accelerate change but we need to make the public take notice. We need to cause an uproar that makes people grasp the seriousness of the genocide of women in South Africa. This uproar could potentially attract institutions/companies/organisations and this could prompt them into making public statements condemning GBV. This would most likely catch the attention of government officials.