University of Cape Town students march to draw awareness to Silent Protest, an annual picket to condemn violence against women.
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Despite the implementation of various Western Cape universities, activists say rape and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) continue to be a concern.
This comes in the wake of allegations that a Stellenbosch University student was arrested for the rape of a female student in his room, and outrage at University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng for being insensitive to a student who tweeted that a professor committed a rape.
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