Charlize Theron's 1999 gender-based violence video goes viral 20 years later
Charlize Theron spoke out about gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa after Lady Skollie posted a video of the actress.
In the video, Theron speaks about how South African men. She also responded with statistics from 1999 including the fact that more women are raped in SA than anywhere else in the world.
The video recently made the rounds on social media - and citizens of South Africa are still feeling the same way!
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Theron mentions in the video that one out of every three women will be raped in their lifetime.
"Every 26 seconds in the country a woman gets raped and that the rest of the men seem to think rape isn't a problem," Theron said in 1999.
On Thursday, Theron retweeted this video with the caption: When I made this ad in 1999 I hoped things would change. They have not. Rape and femicide are still a huge epidemic in South Africa and clearly, the system has failed women.
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A Charlize Theron banned ad from 1999. Fast forward 20 years and it's only gotten worse. 🇿🇦 @CharlizeAfrica pic.twitter.com/87DYedFGHx
— Lady Skollie🇿🇦 (@LadySkollie) September 3, 2019