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If you are a gender-based violence survivor or victim, Enhle Care Foundation would like to offer you an opportunity to reclaim your power through one of the most powerful tools, education.<\/p>\n
Taking to her social media pages on Wednesday, September 7 media personality and businesswoman Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa announced that she, through her Enhle Care Foundation, is offering bursaries to women who have been victims of gender-based-violence (GBV).<\/p>\n
\u201cSixty-five percent of abused women go back to their abuser due to lack of financial support or independence\u2026 the abusers know this,\u201d shared Mlotshwa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe at @enhlecares_foundation_ are working towards bridging that gap, slowly but surely.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also shared a short video clip, explaining how these bursaries can be obtained.<\/p>\n
She started by paying tribute to the over 20 000 women who marched against the apartheid pass laws that were imposed on black women over six decades ago.<\/p>\n
She went on to explain that though the 1956 heroines won the fight against the apartheid regime, the modern woman is fighting a new battle, GBV.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re a woman who\u2019s from an abused background and want to do well for yourself, this is for you.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re giving away two bursaries to two women, fully paid for. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll you have to do is tell us your story and why you deserve this bursary.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In his recent crime statistics speech, Minister of Police Bheki Cele revealed that between April and June this year, 855 women and 243 children were killed in South Africa.<\/p>\n
In addition, over 11 thousand assaults, with female victims, were opened by the SAPS, 1 670 such cases involved children, 9 516 rape cases were opened with SAPS, between April and June 2022.<\/p>\n
Weighing in on the issue of GBV during her recent interview with Dineo Ranaka and Sol Phenduka on Kaya959, the former \u201cIsibaya\u201d actress said: \u201cThe reason why the rapes are happening the way they are happening in South Africa is because there\u2019s low self-worth within our men, a lot of the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not making excuses\u2026 this could be part of the problem. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that our men have pain they cannot speak of or articulate. <\/p>\n
\u201cWho are the first people to take it out on? <\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever is weaker than you, which is women and children. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to have real conversations with our men.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2021 Mlotshwa revealed that she had suffered abuse at the hands of her estranged husband Grammy-award winning musician Black Coffee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have, within the marriage and now, as an estranged spouse, endured gas lighting, emotional, verbal abuse, physical abuse and financial abuse at his behest,\u201d wrote Mlotshwa.<\/p>\n
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