"This powerful visual was on display at the Orange Day gathering against gender violence last week at the Katutura Community Arts Centre. The artists Peter Mwahalukange and Frans Kapiya said the painting depicts the Namibian culture, especially the Owambo culture, where women are used as tools to enrich the men by working in the filed, cooking for the family and looking after the cattle. ""If she does not work hard the man beats her and some are also beaten if they do not produce babies"". The arm in the painting is of a man holding a woman down and covering her mouth, silencing her. ""This must stop, the bad heritage can also change because we are in a developing world, the culture can change so that we do not beat women and also so that we do not teach our children these bad habits,"" explained the artists."
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