Add your voice
Thank you for taking the time to explore our online exhibition! If you have not yet viewed our five student researcher journeys and the six themes, please do this first and then return to this page.
This page offers an opportunity for anyone to add their voices to those that have already been featured in this exhibition. You are invited to add your own short contribution of your experiences around campus rape culture in the box below. Please do not share the experiences of others.
Your contribution should be no more than 550 characters, so as to fit with the approach of the exhibition. These contributions will be reviewed by the lead researchers before they go live. If they fit with the focus, ethics and ethos of the site, they will be posted. Please keep your story anonymous in terms of your name or the names of other people. No racism, sexism, homophobia, other forms of hate speech, or contributions that can be interpreted as such will be posted. We will also remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy. If these guidelines are not adhered to, we will be unable to publish it online.
Please note that this is not the place to put general comments about your experience of the online exhibition. To comment more generally, please click here.
This feature will only be available for the first 8 weeks of the online exhibition (until 30th November 2021) and the voices added will then become a permanent part of the ongoing website. We recommend that you do not use your real name, but that you choose a nickname.
Share your experience
The equality unit at Stellenbosch needs more resources to help rape survivors. Their uni process is causing more harm than good
sometimes the monsters aren’t the men in the streets. it’s the best friend you invite to share a bed with you.
Years ago when SU still had tests that started at 19h00, I was waiting in Bosman street at 22h15 for my lift. The street was deserted on this cold winter’s night. I was so afraid. Thankfully the tests start earlier now, but it is still a safety risk in winter when it is dark before 19h00. Tests should be scheduled during daylight, not at night.
Shortly after the rape and murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana, I drove to the library one night to work there, as I could not work at home. As I sat in the parking lot near the library, I felt fear. I thought to myself “What if I am attacked while walking to or from the library?” I decided against working in the library and drove to my cousin instead, to work there. But I remember thinking “I have a car, which provides some degree of protection. But what about the many women students who walk to and from the library at night.”
Relating to so many of Elizabeth Eyre’s voice notes. Consent is not understood. The university doesn’t believe you did not consent, unless you physically fight back, potentially putting yourself in danger. “You said ‘no’, but if you did not push back/hit your perpetrator, it’s not GBV”. The structures at the university don’t have the resources to fight rape culture. This is a big problem and is ruining lives. Revolting to think others will experience what I experienced. The university is granting degrees to many rapists, and they know it.