Lebogang Ramafoko

“What we see happening to women is testimony to legacies of violence from those systems whose traumas were never addressed.”

Lebogang Ramafoko · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-18

Lebogang Ramafoko links violence against women to unaddressed traumas from historical systems of oppression.

“The bodies of black women have been treated as disposable in this country for time immemorial, passed down from colonisation through to apartheid,”

Lebogang Ramafoko · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-18

Lebogang Ramafoko says the bodies of black women have been treated as disposable from colonisation through apartheid.

“This is not to say black men are inherently violent, but in systems where violence was meted out against them for decades, historically black women were the people that that violence would be taken out on - that cycle has not been broken.”

Lebogang Ramafoko · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-18

Lebogang Ramafoko explains that violence historically meted out against black men was taken out on black women, and that cycle has not been broken.