The choice demonstrates a sympathetic comprehension of the situation and the protective instincts a mother would have in the face of unspeakable, life-threatening trauma.
We must make sure our communities are safe spaces for children to grow up in, and no parent should be forced to physically protect their child from danger.
The event comes after a number of recent instances of gender-based violence in South Africa.The ‘Lion Mama’ was a lady who, in 2017, killed one of the three men she stabbed after they were caught gang-raping her kid.
Early in the morning, Nokubonga Qampi, who lives in the same hamlet of Cacadu as the aforementioned rape
Case, received a phone call informing her that three men were alternately having sex with her 27-year-old daughter.
“I was the only one who could help her and I was very scared but it was my daughter so I picked up a knife,” brave Nokubonga, then 57, recalled after the cops failed to respond.
