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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Women leaders are specific targets

Nomusa Dube-Ncube was sworn in as the KwaZulu-Natal premier on August 10 last year, during a special sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature in Mooi River. She is the ninth premier of the KZN and the first woman premier to lead the province.

On February 11, a service delivery protest was held by a group called Umsinsi Wokuzimilela, which stormed the private residence of Dube-Ncube as part of its “door-to-door” campaign in Hillcrest and demanded to see her.

I argue that this action can be viewed as an act of

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