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I Stories
Over the years GL has demonstrated a commitment to gender justice and equality by efforts to create opportunities and provide spaces for survivors of all forms of gender violence to speak out, participate in various conversations and document their experiences through I-Stories.
“As I reached the other side of the river, it started raining and the God-sent water washed away all the dirt that was on my body.”
I am 25 years old and I have three daughters who are under seven years old. My life has always been full of difficulties. I did not know my father […]
August 24, 2023
Themes:
Gender based violence
| Intimate partner violence
| Young Women
Programs:
Gender based violence
Is emotional abuse not abuse
My Name is Kedibone* I got married to my husband in 1995 and in 1997 we had our first child this is when he started to abuse me. He was […]
November 1, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Emotional violence
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Gender justice and local government summit
I continue to live in fear
My name is Nomsa. I stay Ga-Mashashane, Mohlonong. I was married in the Mabotja family from 2007. Things were fine between me and my husband until 2013. In 2013 he […]
November 1, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Gender based violence
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Gender justice and local government summit
That is the life I am leaving.
My name is Cecilia, I am the fourth child in a family of five. I had my child when I was 17 years. I started dating at a very young […]
November 1, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Gender based violence
Programs:
Gender Justice
| Gender justice and local government summit
| The Gender Based Violence Indicators Project
Business brings my family back together!
It was 7 January 2014 when my husband got a car accident in his work place and passed on. We had three children with him, one being a girl and […]
July 12, 2019
Themes:
Business
| GBV
| Gender equality
| Local Government
Programs:
Gender & Governance
Zimbabwe: My humbleness has finally paid off
“Gender Links (GL) opened my eyes for I discarded the notion that there are jobs that can be done by males only and some by females only. I was taught […]
July 4, 2019
Themes:
Gender based violence
| Gender equality
| Local Government
Programs:
Gender & Governance
Zimbabwe: Eggs business has changed my lifestyle
At first I thought that the abuse that I was facing was never going to end but with the training that I got from Gender Links all is now history. […]
July 4, 2019
Themes:
Gender based violence
| Local Government
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Gender justice and local government summit
South Africa: Raped by my own boyfriend
*Trigger warning: Violence*
I once had a good loving family, a mother, step dad and a grandfather. I never knew my real father, I never had a father figure till I was 13 that when I was introduced to my step dad and his family. This family camp in 2010 when my mom and step dad got married, I then moved in with them because I had a baby and my aunt and uncle kicked me out so they took me in. We were a happy small family, and then I met my boyfriend Phaphani, who was older than me.
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