We took back the night alright.

This week GAP held a women in SA week from the 13th till the 17th of October. They focussed on gender issues (duh!), justice, our country's political leadership and our country as a 'democracy'. They put up posters of different statements made by ANC President Jacob Zuma which I found very interesting and some which were hilarious.



But my highlight of the week was friday night,a number of female rhodents all gathered by the Drostdy Lawn sand lit candles as we prepared t omarch the streets in our attempt to 'take back the night'. This was a very successful an dmeaningful march because the number of rape attacks that have occured recently have been so appalling that action had to be taken.



So anyway we marched down high street and stopped near Frontier Hotel where a woman was gang raped onher way back from the jac lab searly in th emorning. We sang, danced even toyi-toyi'd and were joined by curious and like-minded and supportive observers, that was very touching. I even saw a group of men walking the pavements, joining in and singing along with us.



As we got back on campus after making our way up new street, we had a very chilled picnic inside the clock tower building. We all sat on the floor, ate pizza, had fizzy drinks, sweets n chips, and people recited poetry and spoke about how they felt about what we had done that night. It was a beatiful night filled with beatiful, strong and intelligent women who know their worth and believe in equality.



We took back the night alryt