A housemate has been evicted from Big Brother Africa for
punching a female contestant, following criticism from
women's rights activists.

South African producers had initially allowed Hannington Kuteesa
to remain on the show, despite his assault on Lerato Sengadi on
Tuesday.
Ms Sengadi's family had planned a protest to demand his
removal.

Activists had said letting him remain could perpetuate the belief
that African men had the right to hit women.
TV company M-Net had told Mr Kuteesa, from Uganda, to
apologise to South African Ms Sengadi during one of their
recordings.

It also provided counselling to both contestants.
But on Friday, the housemates in Johannesburg were told that
after "very careful consideration and consultation", Mr Kuteesa had
been evicted.
Big Brother said he had "anger problems" and advised him to
continue seeing a therapist.

Ms Sengadi was also admonished for insulting Mr Kuteesa during
a heated argument before the punch was thrown.
She was banned from drinking alcohol and put on dishwashing
duties for the remainder of the contest.

'Immoral'
Wendy Isaacs from People Opposing Women Abuse (Powa)
welcomed the decision to remove Mr Kuteesa but told the BBC: "It
should have happened sooner - the incident happened on
Tuesday.

"For the young girl to have been in the same environment for that
long is inappropriate.
"We hope that M-Net and such shows now realise that they have
a high responsibility to guard against perpetuating stereotypes
about women abuse, especially in a society where such abuse is
prevalent."
This is the fifth version of Big Brother Africa, which began with 14
contestants from different countries.
It is broadcast across the continent on satellite TV and some
terrestrial channels, and is one of the continent's most popular
reality TV programmes.
In some countries, politicians and church leaders have called for
previous editions to be taken off air, saying it is immoral, pointing
in particular to unclothed shower scenes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11341566

Sooo, we can watch the shower scenes and the h-mates making out in the bath tub, but we can't forgive a woman-basher heh? It was a mistake, he should have stayed. It was just one punch, not so?? Not like he went "Chris Brown" on her [b]as[/b]s. If he had done a "Rihanna" on her, maybe then he should have been evicted .