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Original Post Date: 2008-04-27 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Led by Nwabisa Ngcukana, the young woman assaulted for wearing a mini-skirt at a Johannesburg taxi rank, hundreds of protesters on Saturday marched against gender violence in Khayelitsha.
The march, aimed at highlighting violence against women and children and held on the eve of Freedom Day, was planned by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and supported by the Western Cape Youth Commission, the Western Cape Provincial Taxi Council and a host of other community-based organisations.
The protest comes two months after Ngcukana was attacked by taxi drivers and hawkers at the Noord Street taxi rank in Soweto for wearing a short skirt.
The march started at Harare Park and was soon joined by over 100 children dressed in school uniforms as it wound past the house where Nandipha Makeke, a TAC activist, was raped and murdered in 2005.
Sporting posters reading “Real Men Don’t Rape” and “Hands off our Children”, the protesters proceeded to the Harare police station where a memorandum of grievances was handed to the area’s visible policing head, Superintendent Mncedi Mdonga.
There, TAC deputy general-secretary and former chairperson Zackie Achmat slammed police and Community Safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane for not doing enough to keep perpetrators behind bars.
He said it was “sad” that criminals were arrested for one or two days and freed to continue raping and killing innocent women and children.
“We should assist police find the perpetrators,” said Achmat.
He said Ramatlakane had failed the people of Khayelitsha and the TAC for not responding to their continuous pleas for “firm action” against criminals and rapists.
“Today we are not only angry at criminals, but also at the government,” he said.
Carrying a brightly coloured banner reading: “I feel good in my mini-skirt”, Ngcukana, 25, said she didn’t expect so many people and children at the march.
“This is wonderful,” she said, “especially on the eve of Freedom Day and the launch of the Mini-skirt Festival which kicks off in Soweto tomorrow.”
Ngcukana said although her experience was “extremely traumatic”, the many mini-skirt campaigns and anti-gender violence drives around the country had highlighted the plight of women, especially those living in townships.
Accepting the memorandum on behalf of Codeta and all taxi drivers in Khayelitsha, Peter Thethani, of the Western Cape Provincial Taxi Council, said the council condemned the actions of industry colleagues in Johannesburg.
He said although it was “culturally wrong” for Ngcukana to have worn a mini-skirt to a taxi rank, taxi drivers should not have assaulted her.
“We are against the violence, but we do feel that women should be dressed appropriately in public. That is the Xhosa tradition.”
Key points in the memorandum handed to police and the taxi council include a call for community action and mobilisation to rid communities of gangsterism and crime, faster prosecution of criminals, more rape crisis centres and an end to victimisation of survivors by police and court officials.
The next march against gender violence is planned for May 22 to the provincial legislature in Cape Town.