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South African women and children continue to face the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide — and economic empowerment is the only viable way to reduce this vice among them, Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Nkoana-Mashabane, has said.
The rate at which South African women were being abused, violated and killed between July and September 2022 remains “worrying and unacceptable,” Police Minister Bheki Cele has told reporters.
Leader of South Africa’s second opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), on Sunday criticised his own party in the Eastern Cape province for its failure to elect a single woman among its top ranks.
South Africa needs to be united in the fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) as government, civil society, and other organisations cannot address the “pandemic” alone, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.
South African Police Minister Bheki Cele has said the country’s DNA backlog at Forensic Science Laboratories now stood at 71,000 — down from the 241,000 reported earlier this year — after reviving dead contracts and bringing them to life.
Childcare services allow women to devote more time to paid work, a study by the Consortium for Economic and Social Research (CRES) has suggested.
A South Sudan delegation is in South Africa on a social development-led study tour to learn from Pretoria on how it handled empowerment support to victims of gender-based violence, APA learnt on Wednesday.
South Africa is commemorating Women’s Month in August but the daily accounts of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) will need everyone’s hands on deck to stop ‘the GBVF pandemic’, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille said on Tuesday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa paid homage to late African National Congress deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte as he led South Africans to commemorate National Women’s Day on Tuesday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday reminded his compatriots that it is a crime not to report sexual offences to law enforcement officials in the country.