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This article seeks to reflect on the issue of sexual violence in the context of the twenty year anniversary of democracy in South Africa bringing together views from the authors’ respective disciplines of Gender and the Bible on the one hand and Political Science on the other. We will employ the Old Testament Book of Esther, which offers a remarkable glimpse into the way a patriarchal society is responsible for multiple levels of victimization, in order to take a closer look at our own country’s serious problem of sexual violence. With this collaborative engagement the authors contribute to the conversation on understanding and resisting the scourge of sexual violence in South Africa that has rendered a large proportion of its citizens voiceless.
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Natasha Marrian, ‘South Africa can rise to much greater heights, says Gordhan’, Business Day Live, 4 November (2013), <http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/11/04/south-africa-can-rise-to-much-greater-heights-says-gordhan> [accessed 11 February 2014].
Fazila Farouk, ‘South Africa’s 20 Years of Democracy: Cautioning Against the Narrative of Achievement’, The South African Civil Society Information Service, 7 November (2013), <http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1836> [accessed 8 February 2014].
Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 243–4. See also the work done in Old Testament Ethics on the role of biblical narrative and moral formation by John Barton, Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations (Louisville, ky: Westminster John Knox, 2003), pp. 10–11 and Jacqueline Lapsley, Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament (Louisville, ky: Westminster John Knox, 2005), pp. 10–12.
Niditch, in Brenner, ed., A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith, and Susanna, p. 39.
Ibid., p. 84.
Ibid., p. 88.
Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), pp. 43–9.
Glynnis Underhill, ‘Malema and Shivambu to apologise to Zille’, Mail and Guardian, 14 June (2012), <http://mg.co.za/article/2012–06–14-malema-zille-defamation> [accessed 19 July 2014].
Lebo Moletsane and Asha Moodley, ‘Editorial’, Agenda (Gender based violence trilogy, 1.3) 74:21 (2007), 2–4.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (New York: Pantheon, 1977), chapter 2.
Jenni Evans and Riaan Wolmarans, ‘Timeline of the Jacob Zuma Rape Trial’, Mail and Guardian, 21 March (2006), <http://mg.co.za/article/2006–03–21-timeline-of-the-jacob-zuma-rape-trial> [accessed 6 May 2014].
Pumla Gqola, ‘How the ‘Cult of Femininity’ and Violent Masculinities support Endemic Gender Based Violence in Contemporary South Africa’, African Studies, 5:1 (2007), 111–24.
Ibid., 121.
Carol Smart, Feminism and the Power of Law (New York: Routledge, 1989), p. 26.
Ibid., p. 33.
Simidele Dosekun, ‘‘Rape is a Huge Issue in this Country’: Discursive Constructions of the Rape Crisis in South Africa’, Feminism and Psychology, 23:4 (2013), 517–35.
Steven Robins, ‘Sexual Politics and the Zuma Rape Trial’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 34:2 (2008), 411–27.
Shireen Hassim, ‘Democracy’s Shadows: Sexual Right and Gender Politics in the Rape Trial of Jacob Zuma’, African Studies, 68:2 (2009), 57–77.
Sarojini Nadar, ‘Towards a Feminist Missiological Agenda: A Case Study of the Jacob Zuma Rape Trial’, Missionalia, 31:1 (2009), 85–102.
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This article seeks to reflect on the issue of sexual violence in the context of the twenty year anniversary of democracy in South Africa bringing together views from the authors’ respective disciplines of Gender and the Bible on the one hand and Political Science on the other. We will employ the Old Testament Book of Esther, which offers a remarkable glimpse into the way a patriarchal society is responsible for multiple levels of victimization, in order to take a closer look at our own country’s serious problem of sexual violence. With this collaborative engagement the authors contribute to the conversation on understanding and resisting the scourge of sexual violence in South Africa that has rendered a large proportion of its citizens voiceless.
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