JOHANNESBURG - Pastor Paseka Motsoeneng warns that gender-based violence and femicide have reached a crisis.
Speaking during a GBVF march in Kempton Park, he urged the government to act and called for stronger community safety measures.
“They (Men) should stop being easily provoked. And you need God and the fruits of the spirit.
“No matter how they dress. I saw another woman was wearing shorts. Even if the thighs can shine like that, even if they go naked, control yourself. We don’t even have to put rules about what they must wear and what they must do. If they take their breasts out, no problem. Let’s protect women and fight this thing,” he said.
Motsoeneng said the number of women killed in Ekurhuleni is less than the reality of women dying every day in South Africa.
“These are just the numbers that are discovered in the media. Every week women are dying and some they wake up; their parts are gone. There is also a spiritual thing in this thing.
There are human sacrifices, the blood of the women, their cry and the children. Every time they do this, it extends their power.
Religious leaders in Ekurhuleni joined the growing call to end South Africa’s gender-based violence crisis.
Demonstrators, including civil society and faith groups, gathered at the Kempton Park Civic Centre to demand greater police accountability and action.
The demonstration follows the discovery of at least 11 women’s bodies in Ekurhuleni since July, three of whom remain unidentified.