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The power of needlework: how embroidery is helping South African women tell unspeakable stories

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par Puleng Segalo, Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa

In June 2020, three months after South Africa entered the first of a series of hard lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID, the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa described men’s violence against women as a “second pandemic”.

In the first three weeks of that lockdown the Gender Based Violence Command Centre, designed to support victims of gender-based violence (GBV), recorded…

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