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Silent Protest
Silent Protest

 

 

The silent protest is a Rhodes University movement that takes place annually. It is a protest against rape and sexual violence of women and non-conforming bodies. The main idea around the silent protest is to challenge the culture of silencing women and non-conforming bodies around sexual and gender based violence. The silent protest also highlights the difficulty of reporting these crimes often times leaving the victims silenced, there are too many rape cases that go unreported and this movement seeks to break this silence.

 

The Rhodes SRC was in Solidarity with the student body of Rhodes University on the 3rd of August 2018, and attended the events planned out for the day. We felt that it was very important that we as SRC let students know that we are right behind them and for those who have been violated to know that “We Believe them”.