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Name: New Face of domestic violence
Name of publication: Sunday Mail
Name of publishers: Lincoln Tiwindo and Diana Muringisi
Date: 17-23 July 2011
Country: Zimbabwe
Theme: Gender Violence
Skills: Events Vs Issues
Genre: Feature
Gem classification: Gender Aware
Description
The term “domestic violenceÀ is often associated with the image of an irate viciously bashing a helpless woman into submission.
Such terms often stir gender activist into action as they bay for blood of the alleged perpetrators.
In the past screaming newspaper headlines announcing such cases of domestic violence were very common but things seem to have taken a new twist in recent years.
Reports show that there is a surge in cases where the formerly abused have become the abusers while the erstwhile husbands are now the victims.
Cases of women before appealing the courts facing accusations of perpetrating domestic violence against their spouses have become wide spread.
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