Forced to prove Gender-Daily Sun

Name of stories: Forced to prove gender

Name of journalist: Zama Khumalo

Name of publication: Daily Sun

Date: 02 September 2011

Country: South Africa

Theme: Gender violence

Skills: Sources, language

Genre: News

GEM classification: Gender Aware

Description

Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has condemned the case of a woman being forced to take off her clothes….To prove that she wasn’t a man! The woman, Precious Msibi (51), is a single mum of two grown-up children. She said the manager of a wholesaler in Mbombola, Mpumalanga, forced her to strip naked in full view of her male co-workers. Precious opened a case of indecent assault with the cops in her area after the incident.

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