A virus spread. Why do we panic and when will all this and trying to do through the topics covered in the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcasts you can also find us at dot com and 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 the country. At the end the day were not going to die of goalies buying one thin we going to die of hunger. Women are suffering too. As the last thing continues Domestic Violence has been on the rise. But yet i cant carry on like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. The war in the coronavirus is exact. The heavy toll on people across south africa. With. Life and she turning to the streets of cape town more than this premise isnt that a country wide lockdown began in late march restrictions have been minimally east since then exercise like doors is not a light again but 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 here are rising. This is a Selfhelp Group for women who have faced 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 who feel the misty planting trees because you must remember main office today could be nothing i mean the home they are going to take to everyone on this and you take it into the highland mean hes able to move it onto means that the violence has 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 rapes are reported every day. But these women say things got worse since the start of the lockdown. They agreed to let us film their group in the hope it might encourage other women to speak out. So this is you this week has been really tough for me. Its been very exhausting because i dont sleep. 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. Economic. And we. Use you know so many more we came to assist you. To keep to clean the sea. So you dont. Think. Kims life has been marked by alcohol drugs and physical violence she also says abuse by her partners increased under lockdown conditions. 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. 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. With a pandemic and the response to it are making life even harder for many. President s around of course 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 why must. You let the 6 months know why what are the loved you know what are we going to do and dipping into children going on that is. It to end the day were not going to die of go rebuying 19 youre going to die of hunger because theres even no food parcels in cape town or if i must put it like that no Food Processor as they say you must go down to the nearest to the nearest councillor but there are no counsellors so what are we supposed to know i dont know so the government are not doing enough for us. In cape town its mostly private initiatives the organize food aid no state even shady characters are getting involved leo meyer you said the mongols guy now he hands a few to his neighbors. Oh. I know now most of the people dont have financial wise in stocks from deep seated shoulder. Thats why i do this. Leo meyer spent 18 years in prison for a range of crimes including murder. But since the lockdown began he has become a respected figure in the neighborhood says does a resigning. She has 4 Children Welfare child learns payments are only enough to see the family through half of each month. Its really all people if you dont live your life and people like that in our neighbors to our own people that we love. And i think you can be anything we dont get anything that i only know you when you must not blame. Them government i dont like you youve got the money youve got some unity and support the Community Nobody else doing. Some go for. The. Ease what we say hes our leader to see a small piece of. This neighborhood kid flats is notorious for its criminal gangs to control the local drug trade legitimate jobs are hard to find. Its also crowded here social distancing is virtually impossible. The murder rate takes an average just 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 that with missing those guys. But at this really just really. Brought people together from all walks of life. By being in the 11000000 seem to get it when i get 2 of the gang leaders most of them were busy appeared in court with hooch whats its like that i would talk to sort it out 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. What do i think. Im going to dispute 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 bring me gangsters. Hes never going to go away im going to be good someday you know to gangsters will always be there will always be gangsters hes the one me staying in the way we got old together i used to considering itself against all the time so. Im against im a born again among all the thing against him is the only way out for me. In through those i can supply. You with your while. 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 the i now know. You know. You know somethings going to put me me. Me me me me me me me man. Him son seems cheerful but this is actually a dangerous situation. Jims partner doesnt yet know what is about to happen. She stopped taking crystal meth we could do 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 it 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. Or violence. After an hours drive they get there. Caroline asked him if she is nervous or worried him concede she is nervous says she is not worried and believes perhaps thats clearly giving them yes they resist him and. Then count how they feel it says he believes will be learned once he said if you think this im period p. D. Q. Mrs. Kim and her son can stay in this shelter for 3 months. The hope is they can leave the problems they face of. The. But at the National Level the 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. That means the upturn will continue threatening to deepen the wrists in south african society. Wellington biden is a savior of the forest. 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