25/11/2022
SASCO STATEMENT ON THE LAUNCH OF 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND FEMICIDE
25 November 2022
The South African Students Congress [SASCO] calls on all students and citizens across the country to stand against the scourge of gender based violence and femicide.
The 22nd National Congress of SASCO made a clear pronouncement to treat GBV-F as a pandemic and should be declared as a national disaster that needs to be attended to with urgency it requires. Following from this pronouncement SASCO is calling on all institutions of higher learning to;
- Strengthening Campus controls and equip them to attend to reports on cases of sexual harassment, r**e and violence on immediate basis.
- Capacitate Students Counseling Units in order to attend to students with Mental health problems that largely emanate from GBV-F, especially in the TVET sector.
- SASCO will develop a strong contingent of cadres that will educate and conscientise the students populace about the boy child phenomenon that is as a result of social societal ills and the imbeded uncultured partriachal norms.
- SASCO will expand on its campaigns against the scourge to protect, educate and embrace the eminent co-existence of LGBTQI+ community. The students movement has drawn up a standing pledge to create safe spaces on campuses to protect the alienation and isolation of the community; such that the establishment of non-binary residences and rest rooms is part of creating an all inclusive and diverse society to uphold social cohesion.
- As the Students Calender veers towards our annual right to learn campaign, SASCO will be on the front line to abolish any gendered form of academic and financial exclusion. The organization will also utilize it's internal disciplinary capacity to punish activists and seasoned comrades of SASCO who commodify and sexualise services to prospective and returning students.
The students movement in it's prominent objective to end the gender contradictions in the society, will lead a nationwide emancipation programme to end the capital crime of commodifying sexaul favours and exchanges against vulnerable students [the blesser and sugar daddy phenomenon].
We call on all society to strongly fight against gender based violence and support the launch of the 16 days of activism.
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Issued by SASCO NEC;
President:
Cde Vezinhlanhla Simelane
083 586 5934
Secretary General:
Cde Alungile Kamtshe
072 841 8607
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