- Title
- Women’s rights get a dressing down: mini skirt attacks in South Africa
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141888
- Identifier
- vital:38013
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.18848/1447-9508/cgp/v06i06/42462
- Description
- On Sunday the 17th of February 2008 25-year old Nwabisa Ngcukana was stripped, paraded naked while more than 100 onlookers jeered and laughed, doused in alcohol and sexually assaulted by taxi drivers and hawkers at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg1 (The Star 2008: 2). She was the fourth woman to be assaulted in this way at the rank on that evening. Three other women were stripped and sexually assaulted at the same taxi rank on the previous day. In each of these cases the fact that the women were wearing mini skirts was cited as the reason for the attack.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of the Humanities, Vincent, L., 2008. Women’s rights get a dressing down: Mini skirt attacks in South Africa. International Journal of the Humanities, 6(6), pp.11-18., International Journal of the Humanities volume 6 number 6 11 18 2008 1447-9559
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