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Original Post Date: 2007-08-14 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Ntokozo Mfusi
Residents of the T section hostel in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal remain defiant that the ban they have imposed on women wearing pants in the area will stand.
The group refused to meet the Commission for Gender Equality and the SA Human Rights Commission to address the issue last week.
A planned protest march through the area on Saturday also failed to get under way.
The section and its residents gained notoriety when a woman, Zandile Mpanza, was stripped naked and paraded through the area before her house was burnt down in July for defying the ban on pants.
Gender Commission spokesperson Mfanozelwe Shozi said a meeting had been scheduled for last Thursday. However, it had not gone ahead because of the volatile situation at the hostel after three men were arrested last week in connection with the attack on Mpanza.
“When we arrived at the hostel we were told to wait because there was an IFP meeting taking place. Thereafter they refused to meet us because we were accompanied by the police.
“They were still angry that three men were arrested on Thursday morning for burning down a house where a woman wearing pants lived.”
The men will appear in court on Monday on charges of arson and crimen injuria.
Shozi said that the Gender Commission would persist in its efforts to meet T section residents because it appeared that men were victimising women in the area.
An ANC Women’s League-organised protest march through T section, which was scheduled for Saturday, was also postponed.
The league’s spokesperson, Nondumiso Cele, said that the march had been cancelled because other organisations had asked to participate in the protest. A new date for the march would be announced once plans were made.
Mkhonkothe Nzama, leader of the headmen at T section, said that the march would have been a waste of time because it would not have changed the “law” at the hostel.
“I don’t know what the march was meant to achieve, but I know that it would not have changed the law that all residents here have agreed to.”
He added that he viewed the efforts to address the pants ban as a sign of victimisation because residents were content with the situation.
“We spoke to women in the area and they said they did not like wearing pants, so it is just outsiders who want to impose their rules on us, and it won’t work.
“No women can say that they live under oppression here. This is a law and a decision that has the full support of everyone here,” he said.