well you were doing the job news just did. the love here on banning the whole way for. a living outdoors my own car and everyone was lead a holes in everything just getting are you ready to meet the germans and join me rachel stewart on d w. hello and welcome to the show we have something to celebrate today this is the 50th episode of the 77 percent. we are dedicating today's show to particularly strong african women the survivors of sexual and gender based violence women who are fighting for the rights of girls and women across the continent but before we started to just the warning to survivors of domestic violence and rape they may find parts of today's contents disturbing

here's what's coming up. in our street debate we speak to survivors of domestic abuse and rape in south africa. maybe an artist is with a song against gender based violence. and in kenya an 11 year old boy while the 2 with her are. sexual violence is a massive problem in south africa every day the police records more than 100 cases of rape it's believed that most cases are not even reported. a group of young activists wants to get people to speak out against this violence. elizabeth at a cemetery in township on d.c. we cannae this is a grave offer a friend 7 years ago cindy gum under was beautifully ripped and made it in the dunes of the nearby beach fear is

a constant companion for bella conny and many other young women in south africa. provided nepal. and living in fear. we and safe we are not safe anyway even in our own homes at times for most of them. so it's scary i am scared for myself. for them and for everyone for the children i even work with. kanye west for the child activists for prevention campaign violence initiative that is run by teenagers from wal-mart our ship to come pain is supported by the engine you must a foodie impel economy into a group of 16 learners who help suffer from abuse today and bill economists with 3 child activists at the local library they want to produce short video messages for social media just plain how to report sexual abuse. and maybe giving young people

of ice. and encouraging them on ways they can use to speak out and also raise awareness around the issue of child abuse and in obese violence in their own comfortable ways using their skills using their talents the videos are popular teenagers across south africa watch them and many comments describe in their own experiences of sexual violence or asking for help so that is why i say stand up taking action and speak for yourselves. today is jack. to record his message. that we should speak up and we should all understand what abuse is and i think that we mustn't take it lightly thank you jack hopes that he can mobilize men and boys around the issue of sexual violence because it matters

not only to women but to all. i think we as men should unite. to stop woman and child abuse because i think this is something that might destroy our future as a nation. it destroyed our. life she was a member of i'm not a program for violence prevention by the south african police. was a school safety complainer kept her own suffering a secrete for years she was abused by a family member. she took a life after she fell pregnant. in the child activist have a video call meeting with friends from the other youth group at death motivated both groups to work together to amplified young voices the young activist. complain

against sexual violence to markley in an effort to commemorate her life and to make sure that have passed and was not in vain. because her story doesn't isn't just her story it's the story of this and it gives us much more reason to continue and now we are able to collaborate with other people who we who are not even in the same place as us but we know that these things occur so we just keep pushing. symmetry and. find hoping that our mark list legacy will encourage other victims of abuse to speak out too often sexual abuse stays hidden because victims are too terrified to named tom into their groups message is clear we have the right to be hit. that is also what we are doing in our street debate

giving survivors of rape and domestic abuse a voice because many are afraid of even telling family members or friends that what was done to them. my colleague christine well was in johannesburg there she talked to a tour women would tell the harrowing stories of being raped and of being beaten up . the 77 percent is in johannesburg now around the world women are fighting for equality but in this country women are also having to fight for their safety that is because south africa's one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman on today's street debate we're asking the question why why are women being victimized in this way i'm joined by my panel today in a bit distraught of the conversation with jackie jackie tell us what your

experience was. christy my experience was a gang rape winter club with a group of friends and little did we know that we were going to be coerced into a room upstairs inside the club and a bunch of men came in and i was gang raped there that's my 1st encounter with sexual violence right we'll come back to jackie because i do want to establish you in the conversation as well tracy what has been your experience christine i grew up in a home of domestic violence and as a child i knew that i never wanted to live a life like my mother i wanted my life to be completely different and it wasn't and i found myself in an abusive relationship and being beaten up at some point in my life right because he said i want to bring you into the conversation right now because you have told us that you were a form a picture of violence against women tell us what exactly that means well an age of

16 i you went to see my girlfriend worse you will stay but the idea was quite simply to take them home. so that we could have sex with them and then we took them literally against their will we were no no no if i was but. nice so but it comes goes back to the time when i was 10 when my brother molested me so i grew up with this idea that sex is something to be taken. and not negotiated right ok were you angry at one understand how how you felt how you dealt with with what you experienced at that point i felt like are we ever going to be safe in any social space and i was traumatized for life then going into adulthood where you start dating men who or not. they have no social compassion was

basically if they hear that you've got a history of sexual violence they feel like oh well you've done this before it's not foreign so why should i be asking permission when everybody else has been taking ok i might be unfair to you for asking this question but i'm i'm just trying to understand why men would do that white white men would think that it's ok to do to a woman where i grew up we had a game called. stimulus as in the train men young men will cure outside your house to rape a woman it was never called gang rape girls never called anything it was called i want to get back to jackie because you seem to have resonated when he talked about stimulate the train here yet because i when i reflected on it later on just to understand in my head i realized that for them it was a game it who has the longest stamina who had the raunchiest things to say to a young child as a matter of fact it's like we want to see more we want to see more of your t.

is screaming more of your blood you going in and of consciousness and i actually wish that i was really dying in this moment so what he's saying is completely right that's what they did it and i'll come over to you now i mean if you've been listening to to to everybody speak here you're a psychologist help us understand. what i hear is that society creates noise in which the stuff becomes acceptable and i mean i want to i want to be clear that this is not just being mentally ill people as we understand them who are doing this is every day people walk but the culture that surrounds us is one which is the sort of behavior is ok yeah can you talk through your experience and why you might not have reported your experience i was so traumatized so scared for my life because the person who raped me happened to be part of a big political party in south africa and for years i was harassed and you get the

backlash also from family way you tell them that i was this was done to me and they said oh well you were not a virgin anyway so why is this important now why you still crying over it so you get that feeding of shame over the years and you feel like they may just height and perhaps maybe thousands of victims in the country feel the same way that you did we're still talking about making south africa a better place for women. can you maybe talk to us about what could be done in the kinds of places in the villages like you grew up in so we need to to start almost a new culture that regards women as nothing other than human beings and to know that if we speak about our own heads in our own terrible actions against women we're not letting that team down because that's

what i've been towed. that i'm no longer part of the team ok here because no man talks about these things right ok so i misjudged him in the jackie what is your as we close this debate why aren't other men say ok i also come forth i take full responsibility for what i've done over the years this is the way i'm going forward and this is how educate the next boy child. oh yeah it's a story it's things like sexual harassment you know things like kept calling in the street all of these things contributed to the culture and in that the kind of stuff that that needs to be rooted out as well that you know the circle of locker room talk is no longer acceptable yeah yeah it never should have been never should have tracy so i think it is right we need to we need to talk about it now jackie and i 1st written books about our experience as has because you say and when we write our

stories we don't do it to share our shame we write our stories to give permission to other people to tell the story so i think that that's a very important part of the healing process and i think that answers your question about how do we empower ourselves as victims and i think we need to talk about it we need to break the silence take away the shame and that is the very 1st step in the healing process. and that does it for our street debate here in johannesburg and of course this conversation doesn't entail we're interested to hear what you think what your experiences have been in the country that you find yourself and of course the conversation continues on social media but. a big thank you to christine and everyone who shared their story we really appreciate it as usual you can watch the full truth debate on our your tube channel . now we asked you on social media what needs to be done to end this violence against women i realize is it is said that then yes from nigeria says the

authorities should intervene in this matter by imposing severe punishments on all those found guilty of sexual assault ketone silence of the from kampala says we have to create awareness speak up against it and remind both men and women that there is no greater joy than love a good fellow i am about for my jury a says it's our collective problem parents judge of and community members together we have to fight this evil. so many comments talk about awareness and working together to protect women and girls that's also the message of a song produced exclusively for the 77 percent by now maybe and quite the artist in the maybe yeah the brutal rape and murder of a young woman have led to a tremendous outrage in the society under the hashtags had it all down young people

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thank you ease for this empowering song the great news is that you can join our fight against violence against women and girls you get a chance to be featured in an exclusive version of ease of song just send us a video of us singing or dancing to the song to a 77 at dot com and the best thing is that you can win found wonderful prizes as well for more information check out our you tube channel from a powerful song now on to a strong woman in ghana was using her boys to empower others. say it's not mine to look beyond the shiny and check the rap and the real. great legs so that even greater minds. after the fiesta minister activist and the media

has not gone trying to put them. in a box. of ghana it's them across a conservative. upwardly mobile independent rebel i was raised by a really strong woman who was very very independent for a long while in my life was the breadwinner and she and his sisters a mom that has a stairs like they have powerful god create mothers of the family so that was the example i saw growing up the 29 year old explores female self-expression in a deeply spiritual society subject is off limits including gun topics like. choosing what profit model. fight back against your oppression of women. this is one that follows the stories of what may arguably be the 1st african queers super she rose watch trying to solve our

problems and then after think of corruption. poor poor. activism is already having a positive even just by starting a conversation. along also be a parts of the fabric of. our time to be you know if there are sections when green everything that people keep saying. i didn't think of this this week i didn't think of that when you can see what we intended for it's being away it's a promise a sense that. things are not always going to. the radio and t.v. host let's pop culture and feminism to reach 2000 young men spawn achievement. some time not mindless as i said as he talked so much i know i need to watch is not this is like yo this is i want to hear this now so it's a continuous dance but this is how i try to do i try to be really peace chills or

let's have a good time here and and that way when i chip in you listen to me. just work towards promoting stories of more than african women and inspiring gunnin feminist hasn't gone unnoticed she's been i wanted a washington mondello fellowship which emphasizes leadership and academia but what hopes for the feminist movement in ghana the future of that. be set to. the after. what after no woman is allowed to be if free. so. and we all are the standing of the breasts becoming we create social systems that allow the right to watch what are some defense industry understates. as chipping away at the picture one story at a time. looking to new meaning this with the fallacious stereotype this is for the

girls who are not his girls but their own. the girl in our next report is proof that you can always make an impact regardless of how old you are she was just 11 years old but she is already an accomplished artist actually her c.v. really is so impressive that i have to admit i'm a bit jealous. she is in her element which ever she picks up her paintbrushes the young lady is regarded as a child prodigy while we the world with a passion for art. my name is sheila sheldon i am 11 years old i am an artist. a singer and a public speaker but most people long as. born and raised in the kenyan port city of mombasa sheila developed a love for drawing and painting at an early age. plus

i had discovered that i could travel and the age of 5 years old so when i have to be in school i loved drawing and painting i used to be number one in class and so the tintin notions that i decided to tell my mom about and since then her paintings have taken her to many places from kenya statehouse to the u.s. and india with the help of her mom she. has also uploaded works on social media catching the attention of the mighty and famous i have been able to meet 2 presidents and the president ok now who is paying for me my school fees and the president of uganda i have also won a couple of boards the past one was 2018 in the u.s. when i went to teach children how to paint and draw sheila's portraits and especially her lyons have since become her signature works ever since she sold her

1st line painting for 1000000 kenyan shillings roughly 7500 euros she has a unique connection with life my life and. explain my emotions what i go to like the colorful lion for lion because of the bright colors. that explains how the journey is sometimes i use light because i'm sometimes colors because i'm sad and you can see into the lions i was. inspired by her upbringing but also by global icons and artists like. she has become a palace dedicated to her works she is the talented girls great support system even though she says that she hasn't always had it easy. and really suffered.

and i think remain. memory due to you know doing. this. when she looked grows up she wants to become an architect but then she hopes to continue to develop the artwork and sees all the opportunities along the way. totally impressed and i wish her all the bad. as for her future well with that we've come to the end off today's show with thank you so much for watching remember you can always get in touch with me and the rest of the team just send an e-mail to 7 to 7 it's called my name is liz show i'll leave you with a song by calling on each one of us to make the right decision and stop xander based violence enjoy and see you next time. i want to watch all the.

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