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Oh the people in the picture are (as much as one can tell from a picture) pretty much exactly as you expect. Middle to upper middle class, right-of-center, almost certainly Afrikaans. Unfortunately as far my experience in SA (I left over a decade ago), the men that this kind of woman are likely to be with are also overwhelmingly what you'd expect from middle to upper class, quite right of centre men. Machismo, aggression, bro-code.
I can't speak to whether people outside these demographics are also arming themselves for this purpose, but the gender based violence in South Africa (at least 10+ years ago) is very real. From the bits I've caught from my friends back there, it has got worse wrt gender based violence.
I don't know if I've given you a satisfactory answer to what you'd like to know? My head's a bit foggy today. Feel free to poke me if I didn't address something you'd hoped I would