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SOUTH AFRICA – KZN – 15 July 2019 – Deputy President David Mabuza addressing the crowd at the launch of the 2019 UNAIDS Global update, communities at the centre report at King DiniZulu stadium, in Eshowe, KZN.
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GBV and COVID-19 the ‘twin pandemics’ engulfing SA – Mabuza

Deputy President David Mabuza said the country would eventually overcome the scourge of gender-based violence and COVID-19

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SOUTH AFRICA – KZN – 15 July 2019 – Deputy President David Mabuza addressing the crowd at the launch of the 2019 UNAIDS Global update, communities at the centre report at King DiniZulu stadium, in Eshowe, KZN.
Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency(ANA)

Deputy President David Mabuza has called on South Africans to come together in battling the scourge of gender-based violence and COVID-19.

Mabuza presided over a ceremony on Wednesday, 25 November 2020, marking the beginning of the mourning period for those who have lost their lives to the respiratory disease and social ill – which he has described as the ‘twin pandemics’ plaguing the country.

“These twin pandemics of COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide continue to engulf our nation on an unprecedented scale. We have to work together as a nation to fight these pandemics so that we inspire hope, and galvanise the nation towards a common vision of unity, cohesion and shared prosperity,” he said.

Mabuza: SA must honour victims of GBV, COVID-19

Mabuza said flags would be flown at half mast throughout the country from 6am to 6pm. The mourning period will conclude on Sunday, 29 November 2020.

The deputy president has also encouraged South Africans to do their bit in remembering those who lost their lives and said:

“We call on all families, communities and organisations to set up memorial corners where flowers, lit candles and any appropriate form of memorialisation is observed to remember and honour those who have lost their lives”

Mabuza said the latter would be done not only as a sign of solidarity with all the families who have lost their loved ones, but to demonstrate the country’s resilience and collective determination to overcome COVID-19 and the ugly face of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

“As we share their grief, we call on all our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and houses of prayer to hold prayer sessions to support surviving families to cope with the loss of their loved ones,”

Deputy President David Mabuza

As of Wednesday, 25 November, South Africa has recorded 21 083 deaths from COVID-19 and so far, 772 252 infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic.

The deputy president said the long journey towards eventually defeating the global pandemic continues and that more work lies ahead for the country.

“As we deal with the dark cloud of COVID-19, the chilling pain of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide cuts deep into core foundations of our national consciousness, our identity, our humanity, and a collective sense nationhood. No nation can emerge from the ruins and destruction of its own women and children at the hands of men,” Mabuza said.