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MOSSEL BAY NEWS AND VIDEO - Following the death of show jumper Meghan Cremer in Cape Town on 8 August, South African women seem to have had enough of passively accepting their fate.
This has resulted in a facebook page, SA Women Fight Back (SAWFB), which rapidly expanded to almost 80 000 members within days.
On Saturday, 31 August the SAWFB group hosted its first hour of silence for the victims of violent crime.
All along the Garden Route and elsewhere in the country women congregated between 11:00 and 12:00, wearing black and bearing the photographs and names of women lost to violent crime, or the so-called "fallen angels".
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In Sandton, Johannesburg, women clad in black were seen lining the streets.
In Mossel Bay, women met at the Cenotaph War Memorial at the Point.
"I am here today because it is time for women to start standing up for other women," said Bianca Rademeyer.
Debbie Janse van Rensburg, the local coordinator implored local women to join this movement. "We are starting a support base for all women. The WhatsApp and facebook group is a secure platform that has been created. We are a passive, non-violent, non-political, non-religious and non racial group."
This weekend, the group announced that their website, www.sawomenfightback.org.za, will be live within the next two weeks.
For more information, contact Janse van Rensburg (072 277 2943).
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