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FILE | Protest against gender-based violence in Cape Town.
The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust will be closed for business on Friday.
This is in solidarity with Women for Change’s call on women and members of the LGBTQI+ community to withhold their labour.
They want to demonstrate their economic muscle by doing no work and spending no money for the day.
The foundation says the extent of gender-based violence is difficult to track due to the high proportion of incidents that go unreported.
CEO of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, Janet Jobson, says the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a firm ally of the women’s rights movement.
“The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust are joining the call for a national shutdown on the 21st of November in support of Women for Change’s call that we take a stand against gender-based violence.”
Jobson adds: “For too many decades, gender-based violence has been a scourge of our country, undermining the lives, undermining the dignity, undermining the safety, undermining the quality of women in our country. It is simply a national disaster and we need to be taken seriously.”
VIDEO | UJ students protest against gender-based violence:
