Gender-based violence, where mainly male partners or family members mete out violence against their spouses or female family members, is rife and the country has among the highest rates of femicide in the world. In this show we look at and discuss the crisis of gender-based violence in South Africa under conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and what can be done about it.

Our Guests
Advocate Bernadine Bachar
Director, Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women
Sharon Cox
Health Support Manager, Triangle Project WC
Lumka Tamboer
Gender Coordinator, COSATU WC
Shahida Meniers
Regional Educator/ Gender Coordinator, NUMSA WC

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s people and their livelihoods. With millions infected and hundreds of thousands dying, we are still coming to terms with the pandemic and struggling to overcome it. Since the threat of the coronavirus virus became known, a major area of concern for healthcare workers initially, and later all workers, was and remains personal protective equipment or PPE. Along with other preventative measures, the lack of PPE became a major issue of conflict between workers and employers. In this show we discuss PPE and other preventative measures at the workplace and workers’ rights in this regard.

An Elitsha video feature examining the difficulties of commuting under the lockdown restrictions. Public transport has always been hazardous and time consuming but now under the pandemic, public transport is more dangerous than ever.