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Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Ep. 11 -
Gender based violence - Lorna Mlofana
In 2004/2005, 306 rapes cases were reported in Khayelitsha alone. The 306 reported rapes however do not give a true reflection of the incidence of rape in this community as 42% of Rape Crisis clients did not report their rapes to the SAPS in the same year. Nationally only 7 - 9% of perpetrators of reported rape cases are convicted and between 40 - 60% of all reported rape cases are withdrawn. What can and should be done to address this social ill? In this episode the group, with the Lorna Mlofana's case as study, reflected on how sustained community mobilisation can ensure justice.
Shalom Ncala: Molweni, namkelekile ku-Siyayinqoba Beat It! support group, igama lam ndingu-Shalom Ncala. Kwi-Beat It! support group sonke siphila negciwane le-HIV.sanibonani nonke, namkelekile kule-show. Njalo ngeviki siyahlangana ukuze sixoxe ngezinkinga ezithinta ukuphila kwethu, kungaba yindlela yokudla ukudla okunempilo noma ukuthola ukwazisa kwamuva ngemithi, nonke namkelekile. U-Siyayinqoba wuhlelo lwakho lokuphila kangcono ne-HIV. Uma uphila negciwane le-HIV noma unesithandwa, ilunga lomndeni noma umngani onegciwane le-HIV, u-Siyayinqoba ungowakho. Ukuhlukunyezwa ngobulili negciwane le-HIV akuzona izinkinga ezohlukene. Akhe sizwe ukuthi nina babukeli bethu nithini ngokuhlukunyezwa kobulili. {IsiZulu} [Hello and welcome to the Siyayinqoba Beat It! Support Group. My name is Shalom Ncala. In the Beat It! Support Group we are all living with HIV. Hello everyone and welcome to the show. Each week, we get together to discuss issues that affect our lives, from nutritional supplements to finding out about new treatment. Siyayinqoba is your guide to better living with HIV. If you’re living with HIV or have a partner, a family member or a friend who is HIV positive, then Siyayinqoba is for you. Gender violence and HIV are not issues that are too far apart. Let’s hear what our viewers say about violence against women and children. This week, we focus on how communities can get involved in ensuring that the perpetrators of gender violence get caught and punished. Siyayinqoba followed the story of Lorna Mlofana from Khayelitsha. Lorna was murdered when her rapist learnt that she was living with HIV.]
Khayelitsha, Western Cape – Community outrage at Lorna’s rape and murder
Novelile Mlofana (Lorna’s sister-in-law): Ukusishiya kwakhe kwabonakalisa i-gap apha kuthi endlini, yabakhona indawo yakhe because ebelulutho kuthi. Eyona nto endihlupha kakhulu uba athi e-HIV positive ndimazi ebetyebile etheni, ezinyanga esitya i-treatment, azobulalwa ngumntu ofana naye. Because even yena lamntu owambulalayo akho mntu umaziyo uba akakho positive but ukwazile ukuba amngqungele ubomi bakhe. {IsiXhosa} [Her passing left a void amongst us. Her absence is felt because she was a pillar of strength. What really bothered me is that we knew that she was HIV positive, she was healthy, she was on treatment and she was in good shape. Then someone comes out of nowhere and takes her life. Nobody knows her killers’ HIV status, but they came and took her life.]
Onscreen text: In 2004/2005, 306 rapes were reported in Khayelitsha alone.
Nomfundo Dubula (Treatment Action Campaign): Lorna was killed, she was in a shebeen with one of her friends and she was raped in the toilet when she went to the toilet and she was killed inside the toilet. She was an educator, she was an advisor, she was a mother, so we are here as people living with HIV saying no to bail for those men who killed Lorna, saying no to bail for those men with no humanity, killed Lorna. When Lorna disclosed that she was HIV positive, I think she was trying to defend or to stop the men from raping her. She told them that she is HIV positive and they became very angry, they killed her.
Onscreen Text: In 2004/2005, in Khayelitsha 70% of rape survivors knew their attackers.
Sithembele Mlofana (Lorna’s brother): i-attitude yabantu out there andinoyazi uba yintoni eyenza into yoba mababulale abantu because ke kufa abantu apha e-Khayelitsha everyday, bebulawa berey’tshwa. {IsiXhosa} [I don’t know what pushes people to kill others because many people are killed and raped in Khayelitsha everyday.]
Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign): I want to talk about Lorna’s community. In Lorna’s community which is the Khayelitsha community, the Khayelitsha community is known across the world for having, as Nomfundo said, some of the best services for people living with HIV.
Onscreen text: In 2004/2005, in Khayelitsha 42% of Rape Crisis clients did not report their rapes to the SAPS.
Zackie Achmat: This is a community that understands HIV, so this community has done so much for HIV but we cannot allow the violence against our women and children to continue.
Sithembele Mlofana: Ngoku that’s why ndisithi i-divide kabini ngoba bakhona abathi ‘baba-right ngombulala uLorna because u-spreada i-AIDS apha. Abanye bathi babengekho right, yayi bubundlobongela obu babenzayo. So kengoku siphila lompilo. {IsiXhosa} [This has divided the community. One side is saying that they were right for killing Lorna because she was spreading AIDS. The other side is saying it was wrong, it was a criminal act. That’s life in Khayelitsha.]
Onscreen Text: In 2004/2005, 56 cases of incident assault were reported in Khayelitsha alone.
Vuyiseka Dubula (Treatment Action Campaign): Ibuhlungu kakhulu into eyehlele uLorna ikakhulku xa izawukwehlela abantu eKhayelitsha, how much more kwi-communities ekungekho resources kuzo? Xa abantu bathi bekwi-treatment bephila yi-HIV, zebabulawe ngabahlali. Bahlala nithi masithini, abantu abane-HIV nithi mabaphile phi? Baphile kweyiphi i-community xa apha kulendlu benobukela umntu ebulawa? Mna akhonto endizoyithetha kakhulu, ndizobhekisa kubantu ubakulendlu, nithulele ntoni bantu base-tavern kubulawa umntu ongumama, umntwana we-community yenu, eyi-educator efundisa nina nge-HIV, ephilisa abantwana benu e-Site B, nimyeke abulawe. Nibize izikoli nithi mazizohlamba igazi, nithini ngalomntu ebebulawa kwindawo yenu, nithulele ntoni? {IsiXhosa} [What happened to Lorna is really sad. It is especially sad that it happened in Khayelitsha. How much more in communities that don’t have resources? People are taking treatment to fight the virus, but are being killed by others. Where must people living with HIV go, when people from this house choose to watch whilst someone is being killed? I just want to know one thing from the people living in this house: “How could you watch whilst a woman; a child of your community; an HIV/AIDS educator teaching your children about HIV is being killed?” “You called thugs to clean up the blood, what about the person who just died there?”
Inspector Jacobs (SAPS, Khayelitsha): We have, so far, arrested two people who were positively linked to the case. There are three more that we know of, who we know that well possibly link one more to it, but the fact that there were about six, we’re looking for them specifically.
Support group
Shalom Ncala: Namhlanje samukela u-Mandla Majola oqhamuka kwi-Treatment Action Campaign ohamba phambili ekulweni nengculaza, owasiza ekuququzeleni umphakathi futhi wenza ukuba kwenziwe ubulungisa endabeni ka-Lorna. Bhut’Mandla into esiyibheke kule-insert kakhulu evele ingimangaze because mina I lived through ama-eighties whereby indaba yama-kangaroo courts used to exist kakhulu kuma-communities ethu. And ngibona kune-mobilisation e-strong. {IsiZulu} [Today, we are joined by Mandla Majola, an HIV/AIDS activist from TAC. He helped mobilise the community and bring Lorna’s case to justice. Hi Mandla, how are you? Fine thanks, welcome to the show. One thing I noticed from the insert that amazed me because I lived during the eighties when kangaroo courts existed in the communities. Now I see how community mobilisation has strengthened. There is still anger but it’s expressed in the calmest of fashion. How do you achieve such a situation within a community so that kangaroo courts, where people are beaten and burnt, don’t need to exist?]
Mandla Majola (Treatment Action Campaign): Into eyenzekayo yinto yoba ubhubha kuka-Lorna kwenza uba sifilisha sad kakhulu and sibe frustrated sibe angry. Sihambe through different emotions. Ngo-mobilise kwethu saye saqiniseka into yoba asenzi dlame kwi-community yethu, i-mobilisation yethu ihlala i-disciplined and i-peaceful khona ukuze ikwazi ukubane-impact, sizokwazi upushela into yoba Abenzi bobubi babe bayagwetywa. That is why kwi-different activities ozibonayo around i-case ka-Lorna, outside e-court, kwi-community yethu apho simatsha khona, sisoloko si-peaceful. Sizama ustresa i-point yoba abantu abadlwengualayo mababanjwe. Bekungakhange kubelula ke because amaxesha amanintsi abanye abantu bethu bebe-frustrated but sikwazile ukuba-convince. {IsiXhosa} [Lorna’s death affected us emotionally. It made us feel frustrated and angry. Mobilising as a community was the right way for handling this. Our mobilisation is always disciplined and peaceful to have maximum impact. We had one voice, which said that perpetrators must be punished. That is why the different activities around Lorna’s case, outside the court and in the community were always peaceful. We are stressing the point that rapists should be arrested. It wasn’t easy because people were frustrated and angry.]
Busisiwe Maqungo: Would you say Mandla uba kwiimeko ezinje ngezi apho kudlwengulwa abantwana, abantu basetyhini, i-community inayo indima eyinoyidlala especially ekuboneni into yoba umthetho uyenziwa? {IsiXhosa} [Would you say that in situations where women and children are being raped, can the community take part in ensuring that there is justice?]
Mandla Majola: Community mobilisation ibalulekile ngamaxesha amaninzi ngoba i-create i-awarenessnge-rapes ezenzeka kwi-community because abantu abaninzi abayazi. Xa si-mobilise i-community siya kwiicawe ngecawe Sixelele abantu nge-rapesnokubaluleka into yoba sizi-condemn ziphele ekuhlaleni. {IsiXhosa} [Community mobilisation is important because it creates awareness regarding rapes in the community because many people are not aware. We go door to door telling people about rapes and emphasise why they should be condemned in our society.]
Lihle Dlamini: For community mobilisation to work, for i-community to get involved, it needs the affected person to speak out. Like for instance if I’m raped and then I keep quiet ngekhe ize i-community ikwazi ukuthi ingibacke or whatever {IsiZulu} [it’s impossible for the community to help me and back me up.] It takes me, as the person who’s been raped to speak out and point out the perpetrator. So that other people can give me support because if I keep quiet, the community can’t do anything.
Mandla Majola: Kwi-community efana ne-Khayelitsha, infact kwi-communities ezininzi, urey’tshwa kuhamba ne-stigma esinzima kakhulu. Akululanga for abantu abangoomama ukuthi come out bathi barey’tshiwe. Okwesibini kumaxesha amanintsi xa abantu abangoomama be-report i-cases, azihandlishwa sensitively ngamapolisa because amapolisa sometimes awakho ‘skilled to deal with gender violence issues.’ Okwesithathu uye uqaphele ukuthi ezinye zezi-cases zenzeka within i-family, apho khona kunzima into yoba i-family ivume ithethe inyani into yoba umalume urey’phe umtshana ‘then justice must happen’. {IsiXhosa} [In a community like Khayelitsha or in most communities being raped comes with heavy stigma. It’s not easy for women to report that they’ve been raped. In most cases when they report the offence, it’s handled insensitively, by the police. Sometimes they are not skilled to deal with gender violence issues. Sometimes this happens within a family. For example, when an uncle rapes his niece, families find it hard to report but justice needs to be served.]
Nokhwezi Hoboyi: Into endicela ukuyibuza njen’ba niye nathi ningabahlali naya pha ngakula-shebeen njeng’ba besibonile usis’Vuyiseka ethetha phayana echaza ukuthi ngoku bekusenzeka lento, ulorna ebulawa bathula abantu abasendlini, abantu abaninzi bazozixelela ukuthi ebene-HIV, ebeyofunani etywaleni. At the end of the day uLorna ibingumntu, umntu nomntu uyazenzela into ayifunayo ngobomi bakhe. Umbuzo wam ke uthi njeng’ba niye nayo-protest pha, ingaba umnikazi we-shebeen leyo waphuma wanincedisa nina ningabahlali, wancedisa namapolisa ukuze kufumaneke abobantu abadlwengula babulala uLorna? {IsiXhosa} [When the community went to the shebeen, as Vuyiseka said that people were silent whilst Lorna was being killed. Some people asked what she was doing at a shebeen, as a person living with HIV. At the end of the day, Lorna was human. People choose what they want to do with their lives. My question is, when you went to protest as a community, did the owner of the shebeen come out to help you and the police to find the men who had raped and killed Lorna?]
Mandla Majola: into eyenzekayo zange aphume sisi, wahlala ngaphakathi. Kuye yabangathi sizobonisa uburongo be-shebeen yakhe kakhulu. Kumaxesha amaninzi ii-shebeen owners aziyithathi i-responsibility ye-customers zazo. Thina singu-TAC, ukuya pha besiyo-communicate sisithi ii-shebeen owners zine-responsibility yoqinisekisa into yoba abantu abangoomama abosela kwi-shebeen zabo mababe safe and ii-shebeen zabo mazibe conducive nabantu aba-HIV positive. {IsiXhosa} [The owner did not come out. He felt we were giving him bad publicity. Most shebeen owners don’t take responsibility for the safety of their customers. As TAC, we went there to tell the shebeen owners that it’s their responsibility to ensure that women are safe and their shebeens should be conducive to people living with HIV.]
Vuyani Jacobs: I think you spoke about mobilisation, generally, I’m actually interested in how men behave. I mean you are a great man and I’m sure you’ve met the community mobilisation, what do you think man can do? I mean most perpetrators are generally men.
Mandla Majola: Amadoda ayastuglisha ukwamkela i-change eyenzekayo, i-women empowerment kubo isingathi kuthathwa i-role yawo okanye indima yabo kwi-community, as a result bona ba-responda violently. And kumaxesha amaninzi umzekelo e-Khayelitsha oomama aba-successful abanezinto babonwa njengabantu abacing’ba baphakamile. ‘Sizobadwadla i-verstaan’ zi-terms ezisetyenziswayo ezo. So yi-role yam, yi-role yakho, yi-role yomntu wonke kwi-community into yoba iinto ezinjalo sizikhalimele. {IsiXhosa} [Men struggle to come to terms with change. They see the empowerment of women as overtaking their role in the community. As a result they respond violently. For example, in Khayelitsha women who are successful are seen as being above the rest. “We’ll make them understand” is one of the statements used. So it’s everyone’s responsibility to get rid of this mentality.
Shalom Ncala: Uma sibuya emakethe sizokhuluma futhi ngokuhlukunyezwa ngobulili negciwane le-HIV. Siyabuya. {IsiZulu} [We talk more about gender violence and HIV after the break. Stay with us.]
Shalom Ncala: Iqembu le-Siyayinqoba likhulume namaphoyisa nabeshushisi ngezahlakalo ezaholela ekuboshweni kwababulali baka-Lorna, makhe sibone. {IsiZulu} [The Siyayinqoba team spoke to the police and prosecuting authorities about the process that led to the arrest and conviction of Lorna’s killers. Let’s take a look.]
Khayelitsha, Western Cape – Community action against gender violence
Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign): Everyone in Khayelitsha today, we mourn Lorna but we’re also continuing her tradition of fighting. We want rape centres in Khayelitsha, we want rape centres across the Western Cape but most importantly, we can’t leave it there. So it’s our job to put pressure on the government to make sure, first and foremost, that we get everyone who is raped, that woman is treated with respect, that woman gets Post Exposure Prophylaxis for rape survivors.
Onscreen text: Everyday 150 women in South Africa report their rape, 55114 per annum.
Eric Goemaere (Doctors Without Borders, MSF): There are more or less 6000 rapes reported in the Western Cape per year, reported. The majority of them, I think about half of them, are in Khayelitsha. So we are saying as a community of Khayelitsha, this cannot go on, that’s why everybody is here. This will not go on, this will stop.
Bronwyn Pithey (National Prosecuting Authority): We are very aware that there are incedible amounts of rapes that are reported and then we have a very low conviction rate, at the end of the day, if you compare reports to conviction rates.
Onscreen text: Only 7 – 9% perpetrators of reported rape cases are convicted.
Bronwyn Pithey: The fact of the matter is that we have an incredible number of cases that fall through the cracks along the way. So in other words, lots of cases are withdrawn before they even get to court.
Onscreen Text: 40 – 60% of all reported rape cases are withdrawn. An average court case can continue for two years.
Bronwyn Pithey: A number of complainants lay cases and then withdraw them for lots of reasons. There are also a lot of reasons why we don’t prosecute, we don’t have enough evidence. Unfortunately there are many cases where we have children who are unable to testify because they are too young and we have no collaborating evidence, we have no evidence to link the perpetrator to the offence. We simply can’t go ahead even though she is pretty sure that that was the perpetrator, we’ve got to prove it in court.
Lungiswa Memela (Network on Violence Against Women): I-community ziyabagcina ii-perpetrators, abazi bazoxela emapoliseni noba sebemazi umntu owenze ububi. So siyanida ukufundisana ukuba masizame ukuwutrasta umthetho kwi-issue ezinjalo but nawo umthetho uqinisekise ukuba xa sisithi abantu mabangawuthatheli umthetho ezandleni, singumthetho yintoni esinoyenza enokwenza uba abantu abanjalo bakwazi uku-prosecute ngendlela efanekileyo. {IsiXhosa} [Communities protect the perpetrators, they hide them. They don’t report them to the police, even when they know the culprits. So we need to teach each other how to put our trust in the legal system. The law must also ensure that if we say people shouldn’t take the law into their own hands, the perpetrators will be prosecuted the proper way.]
Bronwyn Pithey: It’s very important that communities do come forward with as much information as they have and it is because people did come forward in this case with the people that were responsible, that we were successful in the prosecution and a conviction and a very good sentence. But again that’s what I was saying earlier on that you can’t actually have one aspect of the whole system working on its own, you’ve got to have an interconnection between communities and the criminal justice system.
Elliot Sinyangana (Police spokesperson): Okokuqala emveni koba ingxelo ifikile amapolisa aye ayilandela, yanikwa ke abecuphi. Umcuphi ngelaxesha owayephanda yayingu-Inspector Nash. Iiyure zabantathu bambamba umenze wobubi, kwakho nabanye ababanjwayo yayinxalenye yophando. {isiXhosa} [Firstly, when we got the complaint, we did a follow up and the case was handed over to the investigators. The investigating officer at the time was Inspector Nash. Within three hours, the suspect was arrested. Others were also arrested, as part of the investigation.]
Voice-over: Ityala lika-Lorna libonakalise ukuba xa abahlali bemanyene ekulweni ubudlwengu nobundlobongela, Abenzi bobubi bangagwetywa. {isiXhosa} [Lorna’s case proves that when a community mobilises and speaks out against rape and violence, the perpetrators can be brought to justice.]
Support group
Shalom Ncala: Samkela u-Lungiswa Memela, siyakwamkela sis’Lungiswa. {IsiZulu} [Joining us it Lungiswa Memela, welcome to the show.]
Busisiwe Maqungo: Uba simve kakuhle u-Eric xa esithi e-Khayelitsha okanye e-Western Cape per year ku-reportwa iinantsika eziyi-6000 ii-rape cases, zeziphi izinto enizenzileyo okanye ezinokwenziwa to see to it uba iyaqhubekeka lanto, ayiphelelanga kulanto ka-Lorna. Ngaphezu kuka-Nash the investigator ukuze aze kufuneka ancediswe sithi because zenzeka apha phambi kwethu, zenzeka emakhayeni ethu. Zenziwa ngumntwana wam, zenziwa ngu-brother wam ndimbona ndiphinde ndiyifihle lonto leyo, ndingayithethi ukuba kukho ubani endihleli naye apha endlini wenze into eloluhlobo. Njenge organisations ezinje nge-Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women and seemingly into yoba into ka-Lorna incedile ngoluhlobo, nina zikhona na izinto enizenzayo ukufundisa abantu ukuba niyi-community ningenza oku noku to reduce ezizinto zenzekayo. Because nyani abantu sebehleli kabuhlungu ngoku, umntwana engekho endlini for two minutes sowunexhala sowuphuma sowuligeza ngoba awazi noba apho umfumana khona uyofika sele edlwengulwe eyilonto. {IsiXhosa} [Eric said that 6000 rapes are reported in the Western Cape every year. What have you done to ensure that people report these offences? It doesn’t end with Lorna. People like Inspector Nash need our help with their investigations because these things happen right in front of us, in our homes. They are done by our kids and our brothers but we keep silent and don’t report that our siblings have done such things. As organisations such as Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women, looking at the Lorna case, are you doing anything to teach people how to respond to such issues? Nowadays people fear the worst if their child is out of sight for two minutes. You fear that they might be lying somewhere, raped.]
Lungiswa Memela (Network on Violence Against Women): Izinto ezenziwayo zinintsi but kusekhona amapolisa nangoku kulemihla elizothi ‘hayibo sisi wazobambisa apha, njani uzothoba umzi wakho?’ Ngoku ithathe i-courage enintsi uba mawuphakame uyoxela kwasekuqaleni. Now xa ezofika azothi ‘uzohlisa umzi wakho, thina esixhoseni sithetha izinto is’khaya, bebaphi abantu bomzi wakho?’ So sizama ukufundisa abantu kwi-communities uba masingayamkeli into erongo, masingamejarishi ukuthi ekabani ingakanani, xa ngaba kukho into erongo eyenzekayo, masiyimele because mna ayindonwabisi, mandenze into ngalonto. {isiXhosa} [A lot is being done, but some police still feel that these issues should be dealt with by the family. It took a lot of courage for you to report this in the first place. Now you’re told that you’re dragging your family name through the mud, we deal with issues traditionally, where was the family? We try to teach the communities that what’s wrong is wrong. We shouldn’t measure violence, we must stand up against violence. If you feel you’ve been wronged, stand up and something.]
Mandla Majola: i-case ka-Lorna yayeyenza umehluko omkhulu kakhulu e-Khayelitsha because i-number yabantu aba-reportayo ii-rape cases yaye yonyuka ukubonisa into yoba abantu bane-confidence ngoku kwi-justice system. So sine-programme esiyiranayo e-Khayelitsha umzekelo sisebenzisana closely no-Simelela Rape Centre. Kwi-stats zabo siye sijonge ii-areas ezingxaki kakhulu e-Khayelitsha ye-rape, sa-developa i-programme ukuba siye kwezi areas, sizame ukwenza i-education kwezi areas, singene door-to-door sifundise abantu about i-rape, sifundise abantu nge-services ezi-available xa bethe barey’tshwa. Umzekelo i-Post Exposure Prophylaxis, i-counselling, i-treatment to treat STIs, i-treatment yo-preventa i-pregnancy. So yonke le-package ifumaneka kwa-Simelela, singene door-to-door siyabafundisa si-target ezi-areas ezine-high risk of i-rape. {isiXhosa} [Lorna’s case paved the way in Khayelitsha because the number of reported rape cases increased, showing people’s renewed confidence in the justice system. We’ve started a programme for example, where we work closely with the Simelela Rape Centre. We used their statistics to see where the most number of rapes occur and we developed a programme where we educate those areas about rape. We go around educating about rape and the services available if they have been raped, like Post Exposure Prophylaxis, counselling, treatment for STIs and treatment to prevent pregnancy. We teach people about the package that they can get from Simelela, targeting the high-risk areas.]
Thami Mthembu: We need to resocialise abantu [people], we need to start redefining gender roles within our cultures and within our communities but most importantly, within our homes and our families. But I just want to go back to Lorna’s story and how that community mobilised. It seems as if community mobilisation has played a role in acquiring that sentencing within this case, so my question is twofold, do we start taking this case as a model in which rape cases are taken around this country and secondly Mandla made a very important point when he said it’s all very well to mobilise people and march to court but those people need to be educated as well and if those people need to be educated and need to be trained, where do we begin?
Mandla Majola: I think i-case ka-Lorna ingumzekelo omhle, it’s a model that people should look at and replicate it kwiindawo zabo. Because kuyabaluleka into yoba xa siputa i-pressure silandela not only e-police station but siye e-court siyoqiniseka ukuthi i-outcome i-favourable to umenziwa, lomntu owenziwe into embhi. {isiXhosa} [I think Lorna’s case is a model that people should look at and do the same in their communities. It’s important that when we apply pressure, it shouldn’t end at the police station, but go all the way to court to make sure that the outcome is favourable to the victim.]
Shalom Ncala: Uma sibuya emakethe sizokhuluma futhi ngokuhlukunyezwa nobulili, siyabuya. {IsiZulu} [We talk more about gender violence after the break. Stay with us.]
Shalom Ncala: uhlelo labo bonke abanegciwane le-HIV nabanezihlobo ezinayo. Sifunde ni ke namhlanje? Okokuqala udlame olubhekiswe kwabesifazane nasemantombazaneni lubhebhethekisa igciwane le-HIVezweni lethu. Okwesibini isixazululo sodlame olubhekiswe kwabesifazane sisezandleni zethu. Kunamakhulu ezinkulungwane zamacala odlame olubhekiswe kwabesifazane Eningizimu Afrika kodwa bambalwa ababoshwayo, kuthethwe icala futhi bajeziswe. Uma emaningi amadoda aboshwayo, kuqulwe icala futhi ajeziswe njenxa yodlame olubhekiswe kwabesifazane abantu bazowithola umlayezo wokuthi ngekhe ugange kungaba ndaba zalutho futhi siybona izinga lodlame lehla. Yilokhu abantu base Khayelitshaabasibonise khona endabeni ka Lorna. Sonke kumele sikulungele ukuthetha isinyathelo sokulwa ukuhlunyezwa bobulili. Sithemba ukuthi niyijabulele le-show futhi niyawuzwa umoya we-Siyayinqoba, Sisonke singayinqoba. Yiba nathi futhi ngeviki elizayo ku-Siyayinqoba Beat It! support group. Kuze kuba ngalesosikhathi, Hlala unempilo, Hlala unombono omuhle, bye bye. {IsiZulu} {Sesotho} [Welcome back to the Siyayinqoba Beat It! Support Group] – [the programme for everyone infected and affected by HIV. What have we learnt today? Gender violence is one of the biggest HIV spreaders in our country. It is up to us to try and solve these problems. There are thousands of gender violence cases in South Africa. However very few offenders are arrested and convicted. If more men are arrested and convicted for violence against women, people will get the message that you can’t commit a crime and get away with it. And we will see less of gender violence cases. This is what the people of Khayelitsha have shown us in Lorna’s case. We must all stand up and fight gender violence. Please keep the letters rolling in. You can contact us on the numbers on your screen now. We hope that you enjoyed the show and that you are feeling the Siyayinqoba spirit; that together we can beat it. Join us again next week on the Beat It! support group. Until then stay healthy, stay positive. Bye]
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