Abstract
Many women and children suffer in silence in cultures where patriarchy is condoned and defended as the natural order of things. The inferior status ascribed women and children where patriarchy is imbued as hypernormative, render them vulnerable to contracting the HI-virus - as the case study cited here reveals. While government and civil society, including the church, sometimes react when violence against women and/or children end in the victim of violence being killed, the argument made here is that a pro-active response may go a long way - such as addressing the patriarchy of our (Christian) faith.
Highlights
Reports of the violent rape and murder of 17-year old Anene Booysen in 2013 brought gender-based violence onto the agenda of government and civil society organizations
The Anglican Church has noted the brutality “with sadness”. An example of this is expressed in a pastoral letter to parishes in the Diocese of Saldanha Bay, Bishop Raphael Hess states that the recent spate of rapes of women in Atlantis, Kraaifontein and Bredasdorp reflects a violent society and that there is a need to speak out against gender-based violence
This has become an urgent matter because of recent reports of sexual violence and murder and because the reality of sexual and economic vulnerability of women and children exposes patriarchal privilege as ‘wrong’ and sinful
Summary
Reports of the violent rape and murder of 17-year old Anene Booysen (of Bredasdorp) in 2013 brought gender-based violence onto the agenda of government and civil society organizations.
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