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Mr President, your laws preventing gender-based violence are worthless – Here’s why

Editorial staff

Stop the talking, stop the summits, stop the mindless reams of policies and politicking, stop adding to the red tape you promised to end, Mr President.

Demonstrators take part in a march against gender-based violence, 29 August 2020, at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. Demonstrations also took place around South Africa including Cape Town, Pretoria and Durban. South African femicide rates are five times the global average according to statistics South Africa. Photo: The Citizen/Michel Bega

Until we change the mindset of those who believe the women in their lives are nothing more than chattel, laws preventing rape and gender-based violence are worth less than the paper they are written on. It is simply not possible to station a policeman outside every home, and change will have to largely come from society. Here we must acknowledge men too are raped. As Police Minister Bheki Cele said in June when he released the Quarter Four Crime Statistics 2021/2022, in the first three months of this year 10 818 people were raped in South Africa. “Almost half of...

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