SABC Disability 360 - Motsweding FM

Go samagana le seemo sa bogole se se tlisitsweng ke tshotlakako mo kgolaganong kgotsa nyalong le Mme Miranda Lephoko


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Gender based Violence has been an on-going scourge in the world and in our country South Africa as well. For many many moons while ago women have been subjected to the worst in the face of humanity, limited to female reffered to or regarded work such as house hold chores whilst men worked in any kind of field they desired, and were subjected to little to no rights over their bodies as well. Men for many moons saw themselves as having authority over the female’s bodies.
Luckily in the advent of the 21st century and the evolving of the world, turning into one global village and all adapting to one universal culture, women have been afforded same or equal rights as men, the opportunity to compete and thrive in all industries as well. Unfortunately the issue of entitlement over female’s bodies is a somewhat pandemic still tormenting the phase of humanity so worse to an extend that women end up dying a the hands of men or getting permanently disabled at the hands of men.
The very same scenario above resonates well with Mrs Miranda Lephoko. A 45 years old paraplegic from Rondebult in Germiston suffered severe abuse at the hands of her then husband. Mrs Lephoko was shot cold blooded by her husband who after turned the gun on himself, killing himself at once.
Ms Lephoko has been wheelchair bound for the past 14 years. She was able to braven up and face the situation from the earliest onset, she even manage to go to an extend of founding an organization that advocates for disability rights, called Bring Change In Me.
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