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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.
“I explained to my children how Safe Haven Halfway Home is allowing us to grow stronger before one day, we move out into a house of our own.”
I had a difficult childhood. My mother was the sole breadwinner and had to do everything on her own. My siblings and I did not attend kindergarten. When we went […]
August 24, 2023
Themes:
Gender based violence
| Intimate partner violence
| Young Women
Programs:
Gender based violence
“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
My power taken away
I was married for 18 years. My first child was born in 1991 and the second one in 1995. I stayed with my in-laws from 1988 until 1998. I was […]
November 4, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Emotional violence
| Gender based violence
Programs:
Gender & Governance
Treated bad because of my background
My name is Precious . I am 35 years old. In 1999 I started dating and I was clueless about dating, I was 18 years and I fell pregnant by […]
Living beyond HIV
My name is Racheal , and I am a widow. I had two children and they have both passed on, the first was 24 years when he passed, on the […]
My life, my journey. My tears, my strength. Life is exciting yet so cruel.
My name is Mrosa*. I was raised by a single mother together with my four brothers and a sister. My mother had to work hard for us and far away […]
November 1, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Entrepreneurship
| Gender based violence
Programs:
Gender & Governance
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
I have been through it all.
My name is Mosima* I fell in love with a man hoping he is the one I will spend the rest of my life with. We have three beautiful children […]
November 1, 2019
Themes:
Economic violence
| Entrepreneurship
| GBV
Programs:
Entrepreneurship
| Gender & Governance
| Gender Justice
| Gender justice and local government summit
| Gender Violence
South Africa: God fearing parents
I am the eldest of three children that were raised by a God-fearing single parent. My entire childhood I felt that I was both coming and going.
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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