Sexual intolerance is still rampant
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nairiporterMiniskirts a Women's Day target
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20080309090934335C383988
Two Limpopo women were targeted for wearing mini-skirts on the day the world celebrates women's rights.
According to the SABC the two women had to flee the Malamulele taxi rank in Limpopo on Saturday because they were wearing mini-skirts.
The report said that a crowd of men shouted obscenities at the women and asked them to undress.
The two women had to seek refugee inside a tent used as a barber shop.
This attack comes two weeks after Nwabisa Ngcukana, 25, was undressed assaulted by taxi drivers and hawkers because she was wearing a mini-skirt at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg.
Her story drew widespread condemnation with marches organised against taxi drivers' actions.
Commenting on International Women's Day, Kwa-Zulu-Natal premier Sibusiso Ndebele, denounced the earlier attack of Ngcukana on Saturday.
"Today more than a billion people in the world, the great majority of whom are women, live in unacceptable conditions of poverty, illiteracy and abuse," he said
"It is against such abuse as the one experienced by the woman who was stripped naked by chauvinist males at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg that we need to intensify our struggle for total women emancipation."
Ndebele called for a recommitment to women's rights and to "speak out against violence".
The young communist league said that there can be no "real" liberation without the liberation of women.
"Women of South Africa and the world have unapologetically played a significant role in the struggle to defeat oppression, patriarchal and exploitative regimes in the process to construct a just and humane society free from exploitation and oppression," said Castro Ngobese.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20080309090934335C383988
Two Limpopo women were targeted for wearing mini-skirts on the day the world celebrates women's rights.
According to the SABC the two women had to flee the Malamulele taxi rank in Limpopo on Saturday because they were wearing mini-skirts.
The report said that a crowd of men shouted obscenities at the women and asked them to undress.
The two women had to seek refugee inside a tent used as a barber shop.
This attack comes two weeks after Nwabisa Ngcukana, 25, was undressed assaulted by taxi drivers and hawkers because she was wearing a mini-skirt at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg.
Her story drew widespread condemnation with marches organised against taxi drivers' actions.
Commenting on International Women's Day, Kwa-Zulu-Natal premier Sibusiso Ndebele, denounced the earlier attack of Ngcukana on Saturday.
"Today more than a billion people in the world, the great majority of whom are women, live in unacceptable conditions of poverty, illiteracy and abuse," he said
"It is against such abuse as the one experienced by the woman who was stripped naked by chauvinist males at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg that we need to intensify our struggle for total women emancipation."
Ndebele called for a recommitment to women's rights and to "speak out against violence".
The young communist league said that there can be no "real" liberation without the liberation of women.
"Women of South Africa and the world have unapologetically played a significant role in the struggle to defeat oppression, patriarchal and exploitative regimes in the process to construct a just and humane society free from exploitation and oppression," said Castro Ngobese.
