Malema amplifies calls to end women abuse ahead of GBV march

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has amplified calls for an end to women abuse as the Women for Change organisation rallies the country for a planned shutdown.

Malema made the calls while attending the traditional wedding of Zulu monarch King Misuzulu and Queen Nomzamo Myeni at the Kwakhangela Royal Palace in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.

Organisation Women for Change is expected to hold a march on the eve of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in honour of women and children who have been brutally killed in the country.

Civil society movement Not-In-My-Name International has also thrown its weight behind calls for gender-based violence (GBV) a national disaster.

Malema said collective action is needed to address the crisis.

“We must put a stop to the abuse of women. We must respect them; we must love them and treat them the way the king treats our queen. Once we do that, there will not be a crisis of gender-based violence. We are not like that. Just stop abusing them, they will not need a protection.”

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