Give a description of recent 2017 to 2019 example of how this gender based violence has displayed in zwelitsha community
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The violence usually starts on a Thursday night, worsens on a Friday and reaches a peak over Saturday into the early hours of the morning. At the start of spring in September, temperatures rise and tempers flare. By the hot, heady weeks of the festive season in December, domestic abuse reaches its worst, outdoing the incidents of violence that have become common over long weekends throughout the year. In Diepsloot, an impoverished community north west of Johannesburg, gender-based violence has become so common that it follows a recognisable pattern.
Some would survive if a car comes by while they are raping her or before she was killed
Brown Lekekela has barely taken a weekend or holiday off since starting the Green Door shelter in the heart of the community. It’s a safe space women can run to in the middle of the night – or sometimes in the middle of the day – if they are experiencing abuse from their partners.There were incidents of women being killed on the street,” said Lekekela, who used to work as a volunteer at the local police station. “Some would survive if a car comes by while they are raping her or before she was killed.”
Lekekela heard a version of this story so many times that he started his own shelter, a halfway way house literally situated between the community and the police station. In a neighbourhood where the 3km walk to the police station can be deadly, the Green Door is not so much a doorway as a tall gate built into an even taller concrete wall – the kind South Africans refer to as a “stop nonsense.” Behind it, in Lekekela’s front yard, is a wooden shed with beds and basin; a safe place where women can report abuse.