paintings

... to end the silences around the atrocities under Apartheid.  A primary aim of civil societys intervention around gender was to end the silences around the gendered nature of those atrocities. 

Ms. Thenjiwe Mtintso, a former senior member of the ANCs military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, and more recently Head of South Africas Gender Commission, suggests that men use sexual abuse to show how weak the men of the opposition are and that sexual violence is often used to destroy the identity of women who have rejected traditional roles.  The TRC report quotes Siefert when she suggests that in a war situation men and the nation might collude in silencing testimony about sexual abuse because:

According to the TRCs Special Report on Women, a primary aim was:

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