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Top Cape Town restaurant 'The Melting Pot' to close its doors later this month iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'He deserves to rot in jail,' says cultural expert Dr Gugulethu Mazibuko, after a 60-year-old man who married a KwaZulu-Natal teenager from his church in 2019 tortured and raped her repeatedly.
After the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund announced it would look into wearables and apps to help tackle gender-based violence, an activist has labelled this as "ridiculous", and said the fund should not waste its time.
Wheels of justice turning slow for rape victims: 'The criminal justice system has been weakened' iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The murder of women by their intimate partners is decreasing, according to research carried out over almost two decades, but the development is far from reassuring, anti-gender-based violence organisations say.
South Africa's government has approved the implementation of three new gender-based violence laws that will help protect women and children and improve the justice system.
Three pieces of legislation that amend several key areas in the fight against gender-based violence have been welcomed by gender activists. On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law legislation, "... aimed at strengthening efforts to end gender-based violence", according to a statement by the presidency.
Despite initial promises that a national council would be set up by December to deal with gender-based violence (GBV), women’s rights groups say the government is still a long way off from fulfilling its promise. The National Strategic Plan (NSP) to stop gender-based violence, launched in March 2020 by President Cyril Ramaphosa, makes provision for the establishment of a National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. The council would ensure implementation of the plan, and was supposed to be formed within six months.