The University of South Africa (Unisa) joins the broader university community, the country, the continent and the world at large in condemning the spate of gender-based violence and xenophobic attacks that are currently afflicting our country.
As a university, we hold the view that these acts are both barbaric and criminal; and should not be allowed space to thrive in our universities and the country at large.
All forms of gender-based violence and harassment should be exposed without fear or favour; and the perpetrators of these dastardly acts should face the full might of the law; including lengthy prison terms and naming-and-shaming.
Equally, we condemn all those who want to turn our country into a bigot state characterized by intolerance of any person or group of persons from our fellow African states or elsewhere in the world.
With a past like ours, where Apartheid sought to tear our nation apart, we should be all the more receptive and tolerant of others; with the understanding that we all belong to one race – the human race.
Unisa therefore supports all national and international efforts to curb the scourges of gender-based violence and xenophobic attacks in all their manifestations.
Publish date: 2019-09-06 00:00:00.0