COMMENT | Wives of the pandemic

COMMENT | The perspective which shall be put forth in this essay shall aim to highlight the rise in domestic abuse against women and the effects it has on its victims who are complying to lockdown measures imposed by the country.

Facts and possible remedies will be proposed using the voice of concern from a youth in a country where these issues are glossed over and given insufficient attention and effort to curtail. A point might be raised that there are other challenges such as the exceptional damage to the economy that may result in the devastation of a nation, however, the reason the essay's focal point is domestic abuse, dubbed ‘intimate terrorism’ is the glaring under-coverage of this issue.

The pandemic has educated many on the ramifications of the oil crisis and work of incompetent politicians, yet the lack of concern and outrage over atrocities which half the world population are at risk of being subjected is shameful...