‘HE BEATS ME UP. I THOUGHT HE WAS SHOWING LOVE’
‘It wasn’t until I had a broken pelvis and a fractured knee that I crawled out of the abusive relationship I was in.” This is the gut-wrenching story of Mpho Sidlane (27), who was abused by her boyfriend for nine years.
Speaking to City Press, Sidlane from Germiston in Ekurhuleni on the East Rand, said the physical abuse started every time she refused to have sex with her boyfriend.
“Every time I was not in the mood to have sex, he would beat me up saying I was changing and that was not what he signed up for. He would beat me
