Gender based in SA: Have south African men become husbands or murderers?

Jayde Panayiotou is the latest case of gender violence in South Africa. The Port Elizabeth based teacher was kidnapped, robbed an d killed  by her husbandjust outside her home on Tuesday April 21st.  This just brings to light the number of women who are being violated on a daily base by their husbands or partners in the country. In 2013 according to a study published in August by professor Rachel Jewkes of the South Africa medical Research Council a woman is killed by an intimate partner every eight hours in South Africa and only about 20 per cent of the killers are identified.
In that same year a man was accused of chopping up and beheading his wife with a machete; police arrested a 29-year-old accused of raping a 2-year-old toddler fighting for her life in the hospital; and police are investigating the rape of a 100-year-old great-great grandmother. Police still are hunting for two of 15 men accused of gang raping a 23-year-old woman. Her ordeal lasted hours.

Oscar pistorius even though he was set free on grounds of self defence killed his girlfriend on valentine's day eve. Still in that same year the British Indian businessman was accused of arranging the murder of his wife on their honeymoon trip to south Africa. In polokwane a limpopo businessman was accused of staging a burglary after allegedly shooting dead his wife. The list can go on and on and on.

Have asked myself more than a thusand times.."why so much voilence against women"? Just as any othrr problem in south african apartheid is seen as the root cause of gender voilence in South Africa. Apartheid had a very huge negative effects on South African who use or see voilence as the best way in solving issues and expressing their feelings especially frustration and anger. Unemployment is also seen as primary caused for gender based voilence in SA considering the fact that about 24.9% of SA are women are  unemployment and 15-24% are illiterate who relay on their partners for financial supports. The partrichy nature of most of our African society view violence against women as a way of portraying their power authority and control as THE man in the house or relationship.

According to Gender Links' research, 77% percent of women in Limpopo province, 51% of women in Gauteng, 45% of women in the Western Cape and 36% of women in KwaZulu-Natal have experienced some form of violence (emotional, economic, physical or sexual) in their lifetime, both within and outside intimate relationships.

Although in South Africa 16 days of activism is being set aside to educate people about violence against women and it is never enough when rapist and those carry out such acts can be seen parading the streets freely while the victims and their families live in pain and lost. Men need to understand that women are not tools use to express their frustration powder and authority but humans who have equal rights like them and no sustainable development can ever be attained in a country without the input support and protection of women