WATCH | A tale of two mothers: Inside the losses of South Africa’s femicide epidemic

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Over half of all women killed in South Africa are murdered by their partners. Here are stories from two mothers who lost children to gender-based violence in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga — and what could have been done to prevent this abuse.

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