If it’s not our sportswomen being abused and murdered, then it’s our sportsmen doing the abusing and murdering.

As shocking as the news is of Oscar Pistorius killing his girlfriend, people must not think that sportsmen do not contribute to statistics on violence against women. The reality is that sportsmen have abused and murdered women. There exists a plethora of sportsmen who are abusers.

And, amongst these statistics are many South African sportsmen, some of whom are guilty of abusing sports girls when they coached them, of abusing their wives/girlfriends and even of murdering them, some have raped women, whilst others have molested and abused girls and women within sport and in their personal spaces outside of sport.

It’s sad to think that it might take a woman’s death, engineered by a Paralympian champion shooting her down with four gun shots, to wake up South African sport and to…