With a bright and positive start to 2023 the glittering Cape minstrels are back, the NSRI is saving lives; Avatar: The Way of the Water is worth watching on ‘bigger' screens, if only for its special effects; the City of Cape Town is acting to combat pollution; and Joburg's summer skies are filled with butterflies.
On a more serious note, press releases about gender-based violence (GBV) arrive in bulk in my inbox just once a year to highlight the issue with a GBV ‘day'. However, violent behaviour persists as a perpetual, underlying murmur across time.
While producing this issue, it has come to light how irrevocably violence is entwined in South African society. Perpetrators can be softspoken, financially successful, fleek, disabled, poor, ordinary family men, teenagers and female or male.…
