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The killing of women is not a series of unconnected tragedies in South Africa | Mail & Guardian | SA News

“I’ll murder you now and walk.” “I’ll put a bullet in all of you.”

These chilling words came from Lawrence Chamurwa Mudzinganyama, confronting three women in the women’s powder room at Vlamo restaurant after his advances were rejected. The location matters. He was inside a private space specifically designated for women, a boundary that should not have to be explained or negotiated. The timing matters too. This happened during a week of intensified national attention to violence against women, as South Africans grappled with the murder of nine women in Ekurhuleni.

Despite this, what followed was a shocking display of patriarchal weaponisation of position, money and power: “I’ll murder…

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