Resolving GBV

My lack of faith in the CJS completely restored: Incompetence from the Police in acting on the charges laid by a victim of #GBV Eagerness of the Court to mediate this away The absolute focus on the behaviour of the victim from both these imperatives supposedly focused on the rights of the victim The blithe disregard from @zonefitct for what transpired on their premises: A male colleague beat up a female colleague for getting in the way of him transgressing the rules of company and country No forum in which the female victim got to present her version of the abuse A show of concern not backed up with empathy for the traumatic nature of this experience The perpetrator shifted to another branch - Cape Quarter, in case such would give you reason to feel unsafe The victim Traumatized, lied to, abused by the system Desperate for it all to be over, to at least start focusing on how to integrate this experience into her life - she was raised by a single mother who never laid a hand on her Adamant only about not apologizing for kicking someone who was in the process of assaulting her The issue Resolved - charges withdrawn, because a simple scenario of a man beating up a woman for getting in his way, is best answered with everyone apologizing to each other He sent an SMS to her manager to ask her to apologize on his behalf. That she was like a sister to him, that he doesn't really remember what happened, but that it must have been because he was provoked My take That abusers get away with their vileness here (In places like @zonefitct it's apparently not even perceived as vile) is not news. The need for justice and protection is the preserve of the Criminal Justice System, and it is their enabling of this aforementioned vileness that demands an overhaul of such with the same urgency as combating that vileness It's really not that big a deal hitting a Coloured woman (the assigned categorization used as an identifier) - why I'm choosing not to identify her. This is a young woman in my community who does not deserve this kind of exposure. To be judged and measured against some arbitrary standard generated from reports and statistics. Too good for that, too good. She has navigated the challenges of her environment and her ascribed reality with grace and a lovely capacity for bringing light to desperately demanding scenarios. Very loved, very held in her community, one of our prizes And we get it. It's our lot. But mostly karma collects, when you've forgot What I'm doing? I'm telling you about it