Corunna pandemic d. W. Reporter. Just like everyone else and shes looking for answers and thankfully with the help of training expect a few of them well. Thank you is not life as we know it. Our new web series. So i thought for has imposed an extremely strict law in order to curb the spread of the corona virus. Is proving particularly tough on the many poor people in the country. To get into that day were not going to die of cold by now you didnt begin to die of hunger. Women are suffering too. As a lot during continues the message of violence has been on the rise. And yet you come i cant carry on like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. The war in the coronavirus is exacting a heavy toll on people across south africa. I. Life and she turning to the streets of cape town more than this permissive that a country wide lockdown began in late march restrictions have been minimally east since then exercise outdoors is not a light again only between 6 and 9 in the morning the sale of cigarettes and alcohol was still bad to people who go back to work tension and im sure are rising. This is a Selfhelp Group for women with these gender based violence under lockdown in meeting Caroline Peters backyard. 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. Committee 1980 s. Because you listen remember main office today could be nothing i mean the homes they are on each it take to be one. And you take it into the highland means hes able to move it on to means that the balance is moved back into the house. Writs of gender based violence against women in south africa are among the highest in the world on average more than 100 reach a reported every day. These women say things got worse since the start of the block time. They agreed to let us film their group in the hope it might encourage other women to speak out. So this is 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. Economic. I mean you need to use humor to those many more we came to assist you. To keep to clean the scenes see. So you dont you dont. Think. Kims life has been marked by alcohol drugs and physical violence she also says abuse by her partner has increased under lockdown conditions. To shes decided to break free. You know. You may want everything you said ive been through it to you. I have to tell you something important so i want to stand up. He 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 that 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 that but i live here and 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. If they end the day were not going to die of go rebuying 19 were going to die of hunger because theres even no food parcels in cape town if i must put it like that no food parcels were as they say you must go down to the nearest premier to the nearest counsellor 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 has mostly private initiatives the organize food aid no state even shady characters are getting involved leo meyer you said the mongols going. No he hands it to his neighbors. Oh. I know now most of the people dont have financial wise in something he just told them. Thats what i do with. Leona 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 only through half of each month. Its really all its people if you dont live your life and people like that in our neighbors to our own people out there that we love. And i dont i think you cant be here and we dont get support that anything that only you know you and i smoked plenty of them together and i dont tell you but the you know your life you know from you know the yanks aboard the Community Nobody else doing. Some go further. He. Eats what we say hes all we need to see his movies because. This neighborhood cape 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 it averages feet per day. Pastor Stanford Hill has been working for 2 decades to end the gang violence. He says the under the law has abated to some degree. I like to think over the course of the dissing of those guys. But at this really just really. Brought people together from all walks of life. Being in the 11000000. 00 seem to get it when i get to out of the gang leaders most of them will busy appeared in court with hooch whats 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 lets face it im hungry. You thought of these and often you have this man coming down the street and he puts up a meal on my table for the next 5 days. 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 gangsters for me gangsters. For kids is never going to go away im going to be good some day you know the gangs it will always be there will always be gangs the youth the way me staying in the way we left it all together i used to considering itself against all the times that. Im against im a born again among i will thing against him because the only way out for me. In through this i can supply. You with your whim on the. Fact that the live in Selfhelp Group in Caroline Peter speck yard. Now that kim has decided to leave her piece of partner it is time for action she has already packed her back. Now you have to go and get your 6 year old son the i now know. You know some men want to meet me. Let me. Make a name that. Kim sun seems cheerful but this is actually a dangerous situation. Jims partner doesnt yet know what is about to happen. She stopped taking crystal meth a week ago 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 doing and nobody is going to hit anybody and. People there will be kind. You know and she is going to be a better mother. Knew smoking. Or drugs. Or violence. After an hours drive they get there and. He and. Caroline ask him if she is nervous or worried can concede she is nervous says she is not worried and believe perhaps as charlie yes they resist him. And count how they feel lets say the leave for women once 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 who 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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