On 2020-05-14 15:51:25 Kimmylee said:
On 2020-05-14 15:47:42 UnlikelySuspect said: The question is what will be left by the time we reach level 1.

Ashes?!...lol

And who will be the Phoenix? CR? NDZ? Cele?

On 2020-05-14 14:27:48 Kimmylee said:
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What I also saw was the SA map with a lot of green highlighted areas and 1 big red around the WC. I just saw a lot of spinach and a big chunck of tomatoes on the map.

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I didn't see that but reading it just smells like political nonsense to me and the citizens have to bear the brunt

On 2020-05-14 16:04:34 UnlikelySuspect said:
On 2020-05-14 15:51:25 Kimmylee said: On 2020-05-14 15:47:42 UnlikelySuspect said: The question is what will be left by the time we reach level 1.

Ashes?!...lol

And who will be the Phoenix? CR? NDZ? Cele?

The people will because without the people they wouldn't be the fire that's currently burning to keep us on the map. And no Madiba nor Roosevelt would of been quoted to begin with if it wasn't for the people.

On 2020-05-14 16:11:56 Need4Passion said:
On 2020-05-14 14:27:48 Kimmylee said: ...
What I also saw was the SA map with a lot of green highlighted areas and 1 big red around the WC. I just saw a lot of spinach and a big chunck of tomatoes on the map.

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I didn't see that but reading it just smells like political nonsense to me and the citizens have to bear the brunt

The pandemic classification map appeared on the live broadcast and that was before the translator screen showed up.

Green
Yellow
Red
I think there was also blue, maybe some orange too.

But most of the northern, eastern (small amount of red and yellow on the eastern hemisphere and between far north east and close south-east) and southern provinces had all green/dark green spinach. The WC had a huge red highlight of a bag of tomatoes.

It was on that map. I studied a little bit of it but it was encrypted in my mind. And the percentages, well that said a lot.

On 2020-05-14 16:26:43 Kimmylee said:
On 2020-05-14 16:04:34 UnlikelySuspect said: On 2020-05-14 15:51:25 Kimmylee said: On 2020-05-14 15:47:42 UnlikelySuspect said: The question is what will be left by the time we reach level 1.

Ashes?!...lol

And who will be the Phoenix? CR? NDZ? Cele?

The people will because without the people they wouldn't be the fire that's currently burning to keep us on the map. And no Madiba nor Roosevelt would of been quoted to begin with if it wasn't for the people.

If you say so.

What do you say?

I say it's best not to get into a deep discussion about how we feel about the government.

Well, would you like to play instead?

Yes! But the government has put us in lockdown...

On 2020-05-14 09:24:53 UnlikelySuspect said:
On 2020-05-14 09:12:04 Tegwane said: On 2020-05-14 08:54:40 UnlikelySuspect said: It is indeed so that since lockdown has started there has been a decrease in reported cases in gender based violence, the reason for this is not clear, could be due to the alcohol ban but could also be because women are too scared or can't go out of their houses to report.

Unlikely, domestic violence is up 153% here since lockdown started

Yeah, in the UK. Not here in SA.

Unlikely

President Cyril Ramaphosa is worried about the increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the national lockdown.

Ramaphosa said incidents of GBV continue to stalk the country as men have declared war on women in South Africa.

READ | Lockdown saved thousands of lives, says Ramaphosa

"We have developed an emergency pathway for survivors to ensure that victims of GBV are assisted. One of the interventions we have made is to ensure lockdown regulations are structured in a manner that a woman can leave her home to report abuse without fear of intimidation or further violence," said Ramaphosa.

He was addressing the nation on Wednesday evening.

On Sunday, Precious Robinson, chairperson of SACSoWACH, a coalition of 33 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), said the national government's gender-based violence and femicide command centre, which runs a toll-free, 24-7 emergency call centre, recorded that more than 120 000 victims rang the national helpline for abused women and children in the first three weeks after the lockdown started - double the usual volume of calls.

Robinson said what was worrying was the attitude shown towards GBV - that it is a foregone conclusion of South African culture, and that it is not considered serious.


She believed that it should form a central consideration for allocation of resources and responses by law enforcement and social development.

"At SACSoWACH, we believe that a key area of focus is to ensure that the lockdown regulations are structured so that a woman can be able to reach out for help, leave her home to report abuse without the fear of a fine, intimidation and further violence.

"We are also working to ensure that accessibility to services such as Thuthuzela care centres, hospitals and clinics are not compromised, and that all services are Covid-19 safe."