Humiliation is where the violence begins

Humiliation is where the violence begins

Before violence, there is humiliation During Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s impeachment battle, Julius Malema reached for a brutal image. Men, he said in substance, had woken up, put on suits, left their homes and gone to Parliament to abuse a woman. The image was powerful. The irony was uncomfortable. Years earlier, an Equality Court had ordered Malema to apologise and pay R50,000 after remarks about Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser were found to amount to hate…