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Please note: The following extract contains content that references rape, gender-based violence and assault.
In the book When Secrets Become Stories - Women Speak Out, women across South Africa wrote essays to share how chillingly common male violence against women is. Edited by Sukoluhle Sue Nyathi, the book contains contributions by Lorraine Sithole, Desiree-Anne Martin, UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng, Shafinaaz Hassim, Cathy Park-Kelly and Olivia Jasriel. In the extract below
Robyn Porteous details her experience with gender-based violence.
Because at the time, I told myself it s not that bad. Because sometimes I still do.
Because by that age, I d already been told the stories about how you couldn t trust the police to do what they are supposed to. Because by that age, I already knew two girls who d been assaulted by police officers - the same police officers who d sworn to serve and protect, not to rape and molest. Because by that age, the one thing I d never f