Lebogang Ramofoko, an advocator for sex and societal justice, said the levels of unit against women successful the state were symptomatic of a overmuch bigger occupation – a deficiency of respect for humanity.
"The bodies of achromatic women person been treated arsenic disposable successful this state for clip successful memorial, passed down from colonisation done to apartheid," she tells the BBC, referring to the legalised strategy of racism that was successful spot until 1994.
"What we spot happening to women is grounds to legacies of unit from those systems whose traumas were ne'er addressed.
"This is not to accidental achromatic men are inherently violent, but successful systems wherever unit was meted retired against them for decades, historically achromatic women were the radical that that unit would beryllium taken retired connected - that rhythm has not been broken."
In Kempton Park, a territory of Ekurhuleni wherever 5 of the 9 caller bodies were found, Lumka Maqhubela is portion of the Girl2Woman Foundation radical which has held protests to rise consciousness of the crimes.
"We are grieved, we are scared," she says. "If the constabulary cannot support america immoderate much the authorities should measurement successful and bash something.
"It's wide that we are not safe, we cannot beryllium told by the constabulary to beryllium much vigilant. They should beryllium doing much to marque our communities harmless – what other are we expected to do? We are not harmless anywhere, not successful our homes, not successful the streets, it needs to stop."
"I consciousness uncomfortable," says Thulisile Sibande, 32. "When I spell to a shop, I person to look around. I'm shocked and scared. So scared, it's a trauma."
Thembi Mabena, 60, tells the BBC she lived successful the aforesaid neighbourhood arsenic Dineo Motapane.
"She was laughing each day, with everybody," she remembers. "Now I'm worried.
"I cognize galore children, girls, who archer maine they are acrophobic to spell to the store alone. There is nary safety, adjacent for maine too. I americium old, but determination is nary safety."
"In South Africa," says Lerato Mzizi, 20, simply, "women are not harmless immoderate more."
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