By Nozipho Dlamini
A week ago, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) presented the Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and People with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, and her deputy, Mmapaseka Letsike, with the first National Gender-Based Violence Study.
The findings from the study, conducted in 2022, do not paint a positive picture.
It revealed that 7.3-million women, aged 18 years and older, in South Africa have experienced physical violence in their lifetime.
It is worrying that the men surveyed as part of the study also justified violence in some circumstances.
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