By: Liza Gilhuly
Lately, South Africans have been hearing a lot about women getting kidnapped, raped, or worse, murdered. Many of these horrid crimes are committed by their supposed loved ones and the internet is swimming with shocking statistics. However, there are occasionally instances of women attacking their boyfriends, husbands, and other male friends. Looking at statistics, though, most men who are murdered are killed by strangers and acquaintances, rather than by intimate friends or lovers. Even in the few cases where a wife or girlfriend hurts or kills her significant other, the circumstances usually differ greatly from the cases where women are the victims.
Recently, a young man was found stabbed in his home in Lentegeur, leading to the arrest of his girlfriend. The article in the Weekend Argus avoided discussing details of the case. More often than not, women in South Africa do not plan to attack boyfriends or husbands, but rather act out of self-defense in the heat of the moment. This is supported by the high instance of domestic abuse, which indicates that very few women are aggressors.
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