In focus groups, women argued that poverty, limited education, geographic isolation, patrilineal inheritance, normalization of violence, lack of formal justice systems, and absence of women in government all buttress social conservatism and suppress women's reproductive rights.
Today, KwaMashu is a sprawling jumble of cinderblock homes, and lush green hills, mud shacks and twisting dirt roads, a place where the new South Africa still wrestles with its bitter inheritance of poverty, violence and deep-rooted suspicion of the police.
There's the inheritance of colonial violence.
There's also the thorny issue of inheritance violence which too often requires that a female family member sacrifice her life and pursuit of happiness in order to secure an inheritance.
In "Lost Empress," Sergio de la Pava creates an interlocking cast of characters navigating the complexities of violence, morality, and inheritance.
By Sharon Olds In "Lost Empress," Sergio de la Pava creates an interlocking cast of characters navigating the complexities of violence, morality, and inheritance.
"They are creating laws against sexual violence, laws on inheritance of wealth.
Years of violence followed.
Gross calls this "an act of violence against both a parent and a child, since the puppet was so much older than the puppeteer, part of his paternity and inheritance".
But pockets of violence persist.
