In this country where a woman is killed every three hours and where there are numerous rapes, women have found a radical response: they are learning to shoot to protect themselves.
In South Africa, a woman is killed every three hours. It is one of the worst countries on the planet in terms of femicide. Statistics also show that a South African woman has a 40% risk of being raped during her lifetime, particularly during “punitive” gang rapes which target women suspected of being homosexual.
Faced with this catastrophic situation, women now have a radical response: they learn to shoot. Black, white, Indian… the entire “rainbow nation” seems to have the same determination: to fight back against dangerous men. For them, faced with the rapes and murders of women, “protection is the key, and the solution is to have a weapon“.
“It will be them or us”
While the South African police seem overwhelmed, the Girls on Fire association provides shooting training in several cities across the country. “Special Envoy” followed a course where women learn to kill their attackers, the only solution they see in a world where, according to them, “it will be them or us“.
This training alternates practice and theory, always around concrete cases that women face on a daily basis. The goal is to “regain control“and that men”realize that if they are aggressive, there will be repercussions“.
A report by Loïc de La Mornais, Baptiste Laigle, Gabriel Porrometo, Roméo Cristien broadcast in “Special Envoy” on November 23 2023.
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