WHEN WILL IT END?

FOR a female reporter working for the Daily Voice, it's not easy to always live by the newspaper's tagline: Ons Skrik Vir Niks.

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Not with the pandemic of Gender-Based Violence running wild in our city or in South Africa for that matter.

That’s why I'm so encouraged by Women for Changes' G20 Women’s Shutdown as vroumense from all over the city and country get ready to make their voices heard this Friday in a mass demonstration. Organised to coincide with the world’s eyes on the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, it's a move to force the government to do more to protect the women of this nation.

As roughly half of the population of Mzansi, women have been called to not work and not spend money for one day, to show what they mean to the economy.

Allies have been called to wear black to stand in mourning and resistance to join the 15-Minute Standstill by lying down for 15 minutes at 12pm to honour the 15 women murdered every day and bring South Africa to a complete standstill.

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And of course to change your profile picture to purple to make the Shutdown visible online.