UNVEILING THE
POWER OF OWNING YOUR STORY
Kim Ballantine
BREAKING THE CHAINS OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
“South Africa, a country known for its breathtaking landscapes and vibrant cultures, has unfortunately gained international recognition for a darker reality – its alarming rates of GBV, one of the highest in the world, impacting countless individuals.” When we think about GBV, we are inclined to view it in terms of the associated crimes such as femicide, rape, sexual assault, sexual molestation, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence. In reality, GBV is defined in the NSP on GBVF as “The general term used to capture violence that occurs as a result of the normative role expectations associated with the gender associated with the sex assigned to a person at birth, as well as the unequal power relations between the genders, within the context of a specific society. GBV includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse or threats of such acts or abuse, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life,in peacetime and during armed or other forms of conflict, and may cause physical, sexual, psychological, emotional or economic harm.”
Kim Ballantine, COO, Camber Coaching Pty (Ltd)
November 2023 | Collective Action Magazine
44
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