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Lockdown stripping women’s financial independence as GBV increases

By Musa Peter Dlamini

7 November 2022
in Economic Justice, Human rights and responsibilities, Income generation
Lockdown stripping women’s financial independence as GBV increases
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Most of the women in the group and community in Pietermaritzburg Central, KZN, are surviving on hand to mouth basis where, in a normal situation, spend the day doing different activities. depending on day today activity.  The lockdown is stopping the women has stopped the women from being   financially independent. Apart from that, the means of survival is becoming extremely undermined. At the end of the day their families are starving and their major worry is they will die of hunger and not coronavirus. Apart from being stripped of their financial independence, women are also now exposed to gender-based violence since they are forced to spent more time with their male counterparts which they are not used to. 

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