{"id":244315,"date":"2022-11-29T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/hanover-park-women-march-to-end-recent-spate-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:28:42","slug":"hanover-park-women-march-to-end-recent-spate-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/hanover-park-women-march-to-end-recent-spate-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanover Park women march to end recent spate of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martina Martin was one of the 50 protesters who marched through Hanover Park in Cape Town, calling for an end to gang and gender-based violence. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has failed me and so many other families\u201d, says Washiela Samuels whose son was tragically shot dead eight years ago in Hanover Park. She is yet to see justice for the murder, allegedly committed by a gang member.<\/p>\n

On Monday Samuels joined 50 other residents, most of whom were women, who marched through the streets of the community, calling for an end to gang and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

During the march, people chanted \u201cWe want change\u201d and \u201cStop women and children abuse\u201d. At one point the group stopped outside Galway Court, a beige and visibly weathered block of flats. According to protesters, gang violence recently flared up at this block of flats, causing tensions to erupt in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really need Hanover Park to get together and fight [against violence],\u201d says Samuels. The march, organised by The Alcardo Andrews Foundation, was also supported by other community-based groups to mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence campaign.<\/p>\n

The Alcardo Andrews Foundation runs a number of programs including youth support and assistance for parents affected by gang violence. \u201cGuns are way out of control. Rape and femicide \u2026 it\u2019s just out of control,\u201d says Avril Andrews, founder of the Foundation. Andrews says that violence in the community is \u201ctraumatising\u201d and police aren\u2019t doing enough.<\/p>\n

Andrews says their hope is that the march raises more awareness and encourages victims and affected families to speak out. She says that the youth in Hanover Park have become desensitised to violence. \u201cThis needs to change,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Resident Martina Martin says violence in Hanover Park is an \u201cepidemic\u201d. She says she joined the march because she wants to see change in the community. Growing up, Martin says she was also a victim to physical abuse and later her romantic partner abused her too.<\/p>\n

Martin says that somehow, the community, government and police need to \u201cspeak one language\u201d and that proper support is needed for victims. She says that they should do more than just raise their voices.<\/p>\n

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Protesters gather outside Galway Court. Gang violence recently flared up at this block of flats, causing tensions to erupt in the community.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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