Gender based violence
Stay away from an abusive partner. That’s what women in South Africa are often told. And that’s precisely what Treasure Ndlovu, a 21 year-old law student did. But that did not save her from her ex-boyfriend, who is also the father of his child. This is her story.
POLICE TORTURED ME, JIMMY MOHLALA’S WIDOW Her husband, the late speaker of Mbombela Local Municipality, Jimmy Mohlala was killed on 4 January 2009 for exposing the corruption linked to the construction of the Mbombela Stadium in preparation for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. After his burial and while still in mourning, members of the South African Police Services detained Bonny Mohlala, his widow, and her two sons, they tortured them accusing her and her sons of killing her husband and their father respectively.