For the first time in three months, news headlines shifted from the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic to another pandemic that is painfully staked against women - femicide.
Lockdown alert level three brought more pain than joy in South Africa as the number of murdered women drastically rose. It prompted president Cyril Ramaphosa to condemn gender based violence and further highlighted the challenges that modern women go through.
What's painful and heartbreaking is the fact that so much has been written and said about gender based violence, yet the curve hasn't flattened a bit.
Women still go through painful experiences in their homes and in the hands of their inamorata's - the very men who are supposed to shelter, provide, love and care for them.
Society has watched in silence as they believe that they can't interfere in private matters or family issues.
Femicide concerns us all. Talk and social media hashtags amount to nothing if action is still a faraway mirage.
It is high time SA raised a new breed of feminist dads who will fight for all of Mzansi's daughters.
