On Thursday, 21 November, just a day before South Africa opened the first G20 Summit ever held on African soil, more than a thousand people gathered at the Union Buildings in Pretoria in a powerful display of unity. Their message was unmistakable and urgent: South Africa is in the grip of a gender-based violence crisis, and the world must not look away. Image (SABC News Facebook): Thousands of protestors lie down for 15 minutes The Women’s Shutdown, a nationwide call for wome