00:04South African women using an apartheid struggle song to ask a simple question.
00:11What have we done?
00:15Days after the discovery of the body of a ninth woman,
00:19murdered and dumped in this open field.
00:22Most of the women had been sexually assaulted, police said.
00:27Arrests have been made in two cases so far.
00:31In Kempton Park, where the body of runner Elizabeth Tsonzo Marcello Homo was found,
00:37women and men gathered to remember those who died
00:39and to demand that police do more to prevent and prosecute these crimes.
00:46A country cannot call itself free when its women are not safe.
00:52To our girls, your life matters, your dreams matters.
00:58To our government, we are done with speeches.
01:02We are done talking.
01:04And so should you be done talking and act and protect.
01:13Some say the fear of living, walking and running on South Africa's streets
01:18is already being passed on to the next generation of women.
01:22This is actually a trauma.
01:23It doesn't have to happen to my family, but the kids are watching.
01:26Like my daughter is just like, is there a way I can convince you not to go there?
01:29It broke my heart.
01:31The United Nations says the country needs a clear strategy
01:34to tackle femicide if it wants to change things.
01:38South Africa's femicide problem goes beyond these recent killings.
01:42Last year, the murder of women and children was declared a national disaster.
01:47But many of those participating in this march, as well as civil society,
01:52have questioned whether that declaration has had any meaningful impact.
01:58Among them is Corruption Watch Executive Director, Lebohang Ramofoko,
02:02who says recent revelations of deep-rooted corruption within the police
02:07show how corruption impacts citizens.
02:11Corruption is not a victimless crime.
02:13And we have seen women pay the price, amongst others, for corruption.
02:17Because how do we find bodies of nine women
02:21when we are having policing that is functioning in a society?
02:24What is the performance scorecard of the police
02:27when you are finding the bodies of nine women?
02:30South Africa has 187,000 police officers on the books.
02:35That's 8,000 fewer than in 2010, despite a growing population.
02:41The number of detectives investigating crimes has also gone down.
02:465,700 detective jobs are vacant.
02:49The Constitution is clear.
02:51It says the state has the obligation and positive rights
02:55to protect citizens and all of that.
02:57And we are being failed by the government.
03:00We are being failed by the laws that are there that ought to be implemented.
03:04South Africa's government says it will prioritize solving these murders
03:08and dealing with femicide more broadly.
03:10But many South African women say the time for talk is over.
03:14They want to see swift arrests, safer streets,
03:18and clear action taken against perpetrators.
03:22Most of us have the movies that don't exist in the old ones.
03:23Let's say statues will tell us from the answers to six comodities.
03:23The only reason the importance of despair of this is not human race
03:23and loathing is not even only Maxwell.
03:24But this country will intervene.
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03:24even the city council of health officers is near the city council.
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