GBV and the pyscho social matrix of the perpetrator

Taolo Lucas PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Taolo Lucas PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Discourse on Gender Based Violence (GBV) is passionate yet lacks clarity on causation and contributory factors of its various manifestations.

I attempt here to focus attention on intimate partner violence which at its callous best presents as murder-suicide (inappropriately referred to as passion killing).

It is my view that the remedy for intimate partner violence is located plainly at an understanding of the psychosocial matrix of the male perpetrator.

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