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title: "#TotalShutdown – the day South Africa's women said 'Enough'"
description: "Across the country, women and non-gender conforming people gathered to speak out against gender-based violence on August 1. NICKY NEWMAN photographed the Cape Town March."
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# #TotalShutdown – the day South Africa's women said 'Enough'

> Across the country, women and non-gender conforming people gathered to speak out against gender-based violence on August 1. NICKY NEWMAN photographed the Cape Town March.

By Nicky Newman · Published 2 August 2018, 12:29 SAST

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