https://news.yahoo.com/african-women-turn-guns-fight-181228960.html
Sun, February 7, 2021, 11:12 AM
For the dozens of women training at a shooting range near Johannesburg, learning how to use a gun has become a means of protection in a country where a woman is murdered every three hours.
For the first time in her life, Ntando Mthembu holds a revolver in her hands. Without hesitating she fires 10 bullets towards a cardboard target.
Last November Mthembu's cousin, left alone in a house for several hours, was gang-raped and murdered.
"Before it happens to me, I want to be prepared," said 33-year-old Mthembu.
South Africa is among the most violent countries on Earth, and its homicide rates are constantly increasing.
In 2019-2020, the country suffered 21,325 murders, according to the latest annual police report -- up 1.4 percent on the previous year.
And the rate of femicide is five times higher than the global average.
Sun, February 7, 2021, 11:12 AM
For the dozens of women training at a shooting range near Johannesburg, learning how to use a gun has become a means of protection in a country where a woman is murdered every three hours.
For the first time in her life, Ntando Mthembu holds a revolver in her hands. Without hesitating she fires 10 bullets towards a cardboard target.
Last November Mthembu's cousin, left alone in a house for several hours, was gang-raped and murdered.
"Before it happens to me, I want to be prepared," said 33-year-old Mthembu.
South Africa is among the most violent countries on Earth, and its homicide rates are constantly increasing.
In 2019-2020, the country suffered 21,325 murders, according to the latest annual police report -- up 1.4 percent on the previous year.
And the rate of femicide is five times higher than the global average.
