How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when well all miss. Just 3 of the tactics that we cover and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like and the information on the prong of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com slash science. So its africa has a whos an extremely strict look in order to curb the spread of the corona. Is proving particularly tough on the many crew people country. It to end the day were not going to die of go of buying one thing were going to die of hunger. Women are suffering too. As a launching continues the message violence has been on the rise. But yet i cant carry on like those my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. The war in the corona virus is exacting a heavy toll on people across south africa. I. Life she turning to the streets of cape town more than is permitted at that countrywide lockdown began in late march restrictions of the minimally east since then exercise a door is not a light again only between 6 and 9 in the morning the sale of cigarettes and alcohol was still back to people we go back to work tension and im arising. This is a Selfhelp Group for women who have faced gender based violence under lockdown in meeting Caroline Peters back yard. She was the victim of a gang rape when she was young. She now helps other women abused by men in particular by their male partners who feel the misty county police because from this new member main office today could be nothing i mean the homes they are teaching take it to be one pound instead you take it into the highland means hes able to move it onto means that the balance is moved back into her own state. Rates of gender based violence against women in south africa are among the highest in the world on average more than 100 reefs are reported every day. But these women say things got worse since the start of the lock down. They agreed to let us film their group in the hope it might encourage other women to speak out. So. This week has been really tough for me its been very exhausting because i dont sleep and im trying to protect my children as well i want to get out but i dont know how. Im feeling broken but i have little kids so i need to get up and i need to make them breakfast and i need to make them lunch and i need to do things for them. To use this motion psychological sexual. Economic. I mean. To use you know those men home or we came to was just you. To pick to point b. C c. C dont you. Think. Kims life has been marked by alcohol drugs and physical violence she also says abuse by her partner has increased under lock time to dish. Shes decided to break free. You know. I mean with everything you said ive been through it to you. I have to tell you something important so i want to stand up. It says ive made a decision and i havent told anyone yet enough is enough i cant live like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. I cannot love this man im going to take my bag and leave them. With a pandemic and the response to it are making life even harder for many. President s and ramaphosa has been preserved in the world for his swift and Decisive Action imposing a tough luck time and creating a 26000000000 euro package to support the struggling economy at the start of the walk down the country was behind the president the problem is that the poor are not getting the help they need at this job center many are critical of the authorities thank god i do not believe it but i wasnt there yet i know that the 6 months know why what the love you know what are we going to do and the people in the children are going under so. It to end the day were not going to die ill go with buying one youre going to die of hunger because theres even no food parcels in cape town or if i must put it like get no food parcels where i was this is a must go down to the nearest premier to the nearest councillor but there are no counsellors so what are we supposed to do no i dont know so the government are not doing enough for us. In cape town d has mostly private initiatives the organize foody no state. Even shady characters are getting involved. Leo minor you say at the moment. Now he has a few to his neighbors. That i know now most of the people dont have financial wise in style something he just told them. Thats what i do with. Leo meyer spent 18 years in prison for a range of crime including murder. But since the last time began he has become a respected figure in the neighborhood says does a recent she has 4 Children Welfare child learns payments are only enough to see the family through half of each month. Its really hard because you dont live your life and people like that in our neighbors to our own people look at that one that i love. And i dont think you can be here and we dont get anything that only you know you would know much about putting. Them together and i dont like it but you know you want to you know come you know the young support the Community Nobody else doing. Some go further. He. Ease what we say hes our leader you see movement hes looking all. This neighborhood kid flats is notorious for its criminal gangs find to control the local drug trade legitimate jobs are hard to find. Its also created here social distancing is virtually impossible. The murder rate in cape town averages feet per day. Pastor Stanford Hill has been working for 2 decades to end the gang islands. He says the under the law has abated to some degree. I like to think over the course of the uprising in disguise. But it does really really. Brought people together from all walks of life and we invite in the 11000000 seem to get it when i get 2 of the gang leaders most of them will busy appeared in court with huge walls its like that i would do topless photo you know what im saying with these motives are sincere or not how do you how do you explain that to a people because this face of im hungry. You thought of these and off them yeah you have this man coming down the street and he puts up a meal on my table for the next 5 days. What do i think. Im going to speak to this man you know im sick. And poor neighborhoods gangsters tonight be seen feeding the poor rather than selling drugs. It doesnt mean they have given up crying it is more likely they are polishing their image and consolidating their position. Leon meyer is clear on this thanks tears for me gangsters. It is never going to go away im going to be good someday you know to things it will always be there will always be gangsters in the way me staying on in the way we look at old together i used to considering itself against all the times. Im against im a born again among all i was being against and. It was the only way out for me. In through this i can supply. You if there was one. Back at the woman Selfhelp Group in Caroline Peters backyard. Now that kim has decided to leave her piece of partner it is time for action. She has already packed her back. Now i have to go and get your 6 year old son leo now no. You know. You know some things but to me me me me me me me me me me and man that. Kim sun seems cheerful but this is actually a dangerous situation. Kims partner doesnt yet know what is about to happen. She stopped teaching crystal meth a week and shes leaving him after each drug filled years together. Is stunned. But doesnt get violent. Kim has finally taken this important step. She reassures her son. Telling him she will keep him safe. Where theyre going to be nobody is going to hit anybody and. People there will be kind. And she is going to be a better mother. Knew smoking. Or drugs beat them up or violence. After an hours drive they get there. Caroline asked him if she is nervous or worried kim concedes she is nervous says she is not worried and believes perhaps thats clearly yes they resist him. And count how they feel lets say the leave for women one thing he said if you take this step im period p. V. P. Mrs. Kim and her son can stay in this shelter for 3 months. The hope is they can leave the problems they face of behind the. But at the National Level problems are really set to intensify. The number of corona virus infections is still relatively loop but is surging in some areas. The pandemic is not expected to peak until sometime between july and september. 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