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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga came under fire this week for her comments about rape to a group of high school pupils at Prospectus High School in Pretoria. Her comments “conflated education with morality”, said sexual violence researcher at the University of Witwatersrand, Gorata Chengeta.
“This government has prioritised education because it knows that it’s only through education that we can deal with some of our challenges that are there, because an educated man won’t rape,” Motshekga said at an oversight visit at the school, with pupils disagreeing with her assertion.
In a statement of clarification Motshekga sent out later, she said that “regarding the reaction of the learners [about her comment on rape] I wasn’t going to debate because the purpose of my remarks was to encourage them to be educated on GBV”.
Court to decide on euthanasia and right to die in South Africa
GroundUp14 February 2021
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An atheist advocate and doctor have added their voices to a crucial legal challenge to determine whether or not euthanasia should be legalised in South Africa.
The last time the issue was raised in court in South Africa was in 2015 when lawyer Robert Stransham-Ford, who was dying, launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court for an order that a doctor be legally entitled to give him a lethal dose to end his life.
It was an individual application, not done in the public interest. Judge Hans Fabricius ruled in his favour, but unbeknown to the judge, Stansham-Ford died, naturally, two hours before the judgment.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
As businessperson Andy Kawa continues her fight for justice following her gang rape, the Constitutional Court has heard that a heightened duty of care should be placed on the police to investigate gender-based violence cases diligently and carefully and to avoid secondary trauma.
“The ineffectiveness of the criminal justice system … sends an unmistakable message to the whole of society that the daily trauma of vast numbers of women counts for little.”
Quoting former Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs in her argument before the Constitutional Court, Nazreen Rajab-Budlender, counsel for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), started her argument in a case that lawyers hope will win improved police investigative services for the survivors of rape and sex crimes.
âCops failed in their duty to rescue raped woman and apprehend perpetratorsâ
By Siviwe Feketha
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Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court will have to uphold the appeal application by a Johannesburg businesswoman who is suing the SA Police Service (SAPS) over their alleged failure to save her from a 15-hour gang rape ordeal more than ten years ago.
This is according to legal teams who argued before the court on Tuesday the SAPS had failed in their statutory and constitutional duty to rescue the woman and apprehend her perpetrators.
According to court papers, the woman had been on a business trip to Port Elizabeth in 2010 when she was abducted, assaulted and eventually raped in sand dunes while walking at Kings Beach.