Propaganda watch

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I felt this category was the most appropriate for the BBC article.
The word-play to avoid reality when it involves any other ethnicity except caucasian is breathtaking.

'Gender-based violence' - a term that that doesn't explicitly point at the male, but is obviously a crime
predominantly performed by one. If it was a white male under the media's magnifying glass, it's called
misogyny or femicide.

But not to piss-off the Left, when Africans are in the article, the rules change and such words can only
be used waaaaay on down the piece!

Tshegofatso Pule killing: South African man on murder charge.

'A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a South African woman whose stabbed body was found hanging
from a tree last week. Twenty-eight-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was eight months pregnant.



Mzikayise Malephane appeared in court and was charged with premeditated murder.
After her death, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the culture of silence around gender-based violence had to
end. Ms Pule went missing on 4 June and four days later a member of the public found her body in the Johannesburg suburb
of Roodepoort.

She was hanging from a tree and had been stabbed through the chest.
There was a wave of outrage in South Africa after Ms Pule's death and the hashtag #JusticeForTshego trended on Twitter.

What happened in court?
Mr Malephane was arrested on Monday and appeared in court on Wednesday. In the short appearance he was not asked to
plead, reports the newspaper The Sowetan. The case has been postponed until 24 June to allow him to get legal representation.
The authorities have not revealed if he was known to the deceased...'

So now comes the massaging of the narrative, the slight forgiveness via a form of using the flat, non-biased
wording. It is what it is and we should embrace the fact that it's wrong to meddle in anyone's cultures.
Unless it's a certain part of the northern hemisphere.
 

'Men need to be part of the solution'
By Pumza Fihlani, BBC News, Johannesburg

The past few days have been difficult for the women of South Africa. At a time when the nation's focus has been on containing
the spread of coronavirus, the gruesome murders of women like Tshegofatso Pule have been a harsh reminder of the daily
violence women face here...'

See...? Hanging from a tree with an unborn baby is defined as a 'difficult' last few days. Then using plague-fear, the story adds
that the murders are a reminder of something that occurs every day. There's nothing to indicate any type of judgement from the
writer, merely a vague non-specific-blaming of a 'culture-like' behaviour.

'President Cyril Ramaphosa has described gender-based violence as the shame of the nation. His government has in the last
few months channelled more resources towards the fight. Some of the extra funding has gone towards training the police, some
towards special sexual offences courts.

But advocates say there should be more focus placed on prevention and, for that, attitudes towards women need to change.
That is something that will need more than hashtags and protests, it needs men to be part of the solution, they say.

South Africa - 'unsafe to be a woman'
On Saturday President Ramaphosa released a statement denouncing gender-based violence.

He said it had become more dangerous for women during South Africa's lockdown. "We note with disgust that at a time when the
country is facing the gravest of threats from the [coronavirus] pandemic, violent men are taking advantage of the eased restrictions
on movement to attack women and children," he said...'

Ah.. these are violent men, not just men. I get it now. Sort of Jeffery Epstein, but not blameable.

Mr Ramaphosa condemned the brutality of recent killings, mentioning Ms Pule and two other victims:

Naledi Phangindawo - the 25-year-old was stabbed to death in the harbour city of Mossel Bay last Saturday.
Those using the hashtag #JusticeforNaledi want the suspect, who is now in police custody, to be denied bail. He is believed to be
her partner.

Sanele Mfaba - the young woman had been dumped under a tree in Johannesburg's Soweto township on Friday.
As many as 51% of women in South Africa had experienced violence at the hands of someone they were in a relationship with, the
president's statement said.
He urged people to report crimes.

"Gender-based violence thrives in a climate of silence. With our silence, by looking the other way because we believe it is a personal
or family matter, we become complicit in this most insidious of crimes," President Ramaphosa said. Following an outcry over a spate
of femicides last year, President Ramaphosa said South Africa was one of "the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman"...'

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But what..? Go on say it, they don't know any better. It's the way it is and we -the media, shouldn't judge them.