Exploring the intersection between youth and Gender-based violence

By Danielle Hoffmeester and Jodi Williams | Published Jun 8, 2018

"How did you make sense of Bertha’s* death?"Immediately the atmosphere dropped, and we were knee-deep in a few moments of palpable tension. "How does one make sense of it? It's not normal. "We were seated with approximately 30 young people from the Overberg region in the Western Cape. We asked them to interrogate and reflect on the gendered nature of violence and power within their respective spaces.