Reporter keep your job just like everyone else and shes looking for answers and thankfully with the help of to name a fair few of them. Thank you is not life as we know it. Together our new web series. Such. So its africa has includes an extremely strict law that in order to curb the spread of the corona. Is proving particularly tough on the many poor people the country. At the end the day were not going to die of go of buying 1000. 00 youre going to die of hunger. Women are suffering too. As a lot thing continues to mess. Violence has been on the rise. And youre going to be my kind of carry on like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. The war in the coronavirus is exacting a heavy toll on people across south africa. With. Life and she turning to the streets of cape town more than is permitted at that countrywide lockdown began in late march restrictions have been minimally east since then exercise a doors is not a light again only between 6 and 9 in the morning the sale of cigarettes and alcohol was still back to people who go back to work tension and anger are rising. This is a Selfhelp Group for women who have faced gender based violence under lockdown in eatontown by futures backyard. She was the victim of a gang rape when she was young. She know helps other women abused by men in particular by their male partners who feel the mystique 19 peacekeepers who misremember main office today could be nothing i mean the home they are in she take it easy one instead you take him to the thailand means hes able to move around to means that the violence has moved back into her own. Rates of gender based violence against women in south africa are among the highest in the world on average more than 100 reach are reported every day. These women say things got worse since the start of the lock down. They agreed to let us film their group in the hope it might encourage other women to speak out. This week has been really tough for me. Its been very exhausting because i dont sleep. Im trying to protect my children is well i want to get out but i dont know how. Im feeling broken but i have little kids so i need to get up and i need to make them breakfast and i need to make them lunch and i need to do things for them. To use this motion psychological. Economic. I mean. Do you think you did those men home or we came to assist you. To keep to a point you seem to see. So you dont you dont. Think. Kims life has been marked by alcohol drugs and physical violence she also says abuse by her partner has increased under lockdown conditions. Shes decided to break free. You know to see a. Man with everything you said ive been through it to you. I have to tell you something important so i want to stand up. If this is ive made a decision that i havent told anyone yet enough is enough i cant live like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. I cannot love this man im going to take my bag and leave yet. They. Both a pandemic and the response to it are making life even harder for many. President s around a course or has been preserved in the world for his swift and Decisive Action imposing tough luck time and creasing a 26000000000 euro package to support the struggling economy at the start of the walk down the country was behind the president the problem is that the poor are not getting the help they need at this job center many are critical of the authorities thank god i do not believe it but i why dont you know. That this experience no why what is the look you know what are we going to do it to fit into children are going on. At it in the day were not going to die of always buying one in we going to die of hunger because theres even no food parcels in cape town or if i must put it like that no food parcels as they say we must go down to the nearest premier to the nearest councillor but there are no counsellors so what are we supposed to do no i dont know so the government are not doing enough for us. In cape town its mostly private initiatives the organize foody not state. Even shady characters are getting involved. Leo meyer you say at the moment girls getting. Their hands and feet to his neighbors. I know now most of the people dont have financial wise in some deep seated shoulder. Thats why i do this. Leona meyer spent 18 years in prison for range of crime including murder. But since the lockdown began he has become a respected figure in the neighborhood says does a resigning she has 4 Children Welfare child learns payments are only enough to see the family through half of each month. Its really hard because you dont live your life and people like that and our neighbors to our own people and now we know you. And i dont think you can be here and we dont get anything that only you know you would know much about plenty. Of them to have a known type of the if you want to why did you come you know the yanks aboard the bomb you did you nobody else do it. Some go further. He. Eats what we say hes our leader you can see his movies took in all. This Neighborhood Flats is notorious for its criminal gangs find to control the local drug trade legitimate jobs are hard to find. Its also crowded here social distancing is virtually impossible. The murder rate takes an average just feet per day. Pastor Stamford Hill has been working for 2 decades to end the gang violence. He says the under the law has abated to some degree. I like to think over the course of the publishing industry. But at this really just really. Brought people together from all walks of life. In the 11000000 seem to get it when i get 2 of the gang leaders most of them will busy appeared in court with huge walls its like that i would root up the story you know what im saying with these motives since you know not how do you how do you explain that to a kid because lets face it im hungry. You thought of these and took off to me yeah you have this man coming down the street and he puts up a meal on my table for the next 5 days. What do i think. Im going to speak to this man you know im sick. And poor neighborhoods gangsters tonight be seen feeding the poor rather than selling drugs. It doesnt mean they had given up crying it is more likely they are polishing their image and consolidating their position. Leon meyer is clear on this thanks tears for me gangsters. It is never going to go away im going to be good someday you know that things will always be there will always be gangstas in the way me staying on in the way we got old together i used to considering itself against all the times. Im against im a born again among all those thing against him is the only way out for me. In through those i can supply. You with your one. Back at the woman Selfhelp Group in Caroline Peters backyard. Now that kim has decided to leave her piece of partner it is time for action. She has already packed her back. Now they have to go and get your 6 year old son the i now know. You know something other than me me me me me me me me me me me. Kim sun seems cheerful but this is actually a dangerous situation. Jims partner doesnt yet know what is about to happen. Shes still teaching crystal meth that we can do and shes leaving him after each drug filled years together. Is stunned. But doesnt get violent. Kim has finally taken this important step. She reassures her son. Telling him she will keep him safe. Where theyre going to be nobody thats going to hit anybody and. People there will be kind. And she is going to be a better mother. Knew smoking. Or drugs. Or violence. After an hours drive they get their. Team. Caroline ask him if she is nervous or worried can concede she is nervous says she is not worried and believes perhaps thats clearly yes they resist him and. Then count how they feel its the need for women one for the side to make this im very picky mrs. Kim and her son can stay at this shelter for 3 months. The hope is they can leave the problems they face of behind the. But at the National Level problems are only set to intensify. The number of Coronavirus Infections is still relatively loop that is surging in some areas. The pandemic is not expected to peak until sometime between july and september. That means the upturn will continue threatening to deepen the rifts in south african society. 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