REBECCA DAVIS: South Africa has an attitude problem. Period.
'I guarantee that there is not a woman in South Africa who did not experience a frisson of vicarious horror and shame upon hearing this story'
Betting shops are often thought of as pretty sleazy places. What they aren't particularly associated with is menstruation. A 2013 survey in the UK showed that patrons of these establishments are 88% male, so the majority of customers do not have to spend between two and seven days each month discharging uterine lining from their vaginas. But the same doesn't hold for the staff of these shops, as events at TopBet in Germiston, Gauteng, have handily illustrated.EWN reported on Monday that in January women employees of this betting franchise were subjected to a vaginal inspection using surgical gloves to determine who was responsible for leaving a small amount of menstrual blood in the women's toilet. I guarantee that there is not a woman in South Africa who did not experience a frisson of vicarious horror and shame upon hearing this story. It is a female nightmare brought to life in ghastly technicolour. It is the schoolgirl terror of discovering you have bled through your uniform, wr...
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