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Time running out to comment on draft Domestic Violence regulations

LOCAL Justice and Constitutional Development Deputy Minister, John Jeffery, says the draft Domestic Violence regulations are critical to strengthening the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide. He was speaking during a webinar on the draft regulations on Wednesday. The regulations follow the signing into law of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill, the Criminal and Related Matters Amendment Bill and the Domestic Violence […]

7 July 2022

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3 new laws planned for South Africa: Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has detailed three ‘key bills’ which aim to tackle the country’s problem of gender-based violence and other violent crimes. Writing in his weekly open letter to the public, Ramaphosa said that the three amendment bills are designed to fill the gaps that allow some perpetrators of these crimes to evade justice and to give full effect to the rights of our country’s women and children. “The sad […]

7 September 2020

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13 192 domestic violence incidents reported under lockdown: Cele

More than 13 000 domestic violence incidents were reported under lockdown between March 27 and June 3, according to Police Minister Bheki Cele. He was responding to an EFF Parliamentary question in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). Minister Cele says 13 192 verified counts of domestic violence were reported to the police between 27 March and 3rd June. The total number of people who were arrested and prosecuted were […]

28 August 2020

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SAPS doesn’t comply with domestic violence act, says Western Cape

Western Cape police are non-compliant with the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), the province's MEC for community safety (DoCs), Albert Fritz, said on Monday. "The DoCS has concluded the census project, monitoring the level of compliance of 150 police stations in the province with the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) 116 of 1998 and the SAPS National Instruction 7/1999. The census was monitored over a six-month period, between July and December 2017, […]

14 January 2020

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Sudan teen convicted of murdering ‘rapist’ husband has death sentence overturned

The death sentence of a Sudanese teen convicted for killing her husband she alleges was trying to rape her was overturned on Tuesday, her lawyer said. Since being sentenced to death by hanging last month, the case of Noura Hussein, 19, has garnered international attention. Campaigners have gathered round her cause to highlight Sudan’s personal status law, which critics say leaves women and girls vulnerable to domestic violence, marital rape […]

27 June 2018

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Mbalula aims to make reporting gender based crimes less traumatic

Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said he is focussing his efforts at ensuring that all gender-based violence crimes are made easier and less traumatic to report to the police. During the launch of a gender-based violence and protection of vulnerable groups indaba on Thursday in Centurion, Mbalula conceded that there are police and societal barriers to reporting gender based crimes to the police. "I aimed at focusing our efforts into making […]

18 August 2017

domestic violence

Time running out to comment on draft Domestic Violence regulations

3 new laws planned for South Africa: Ramaphosa

13 192 domestic violence incidents reported under lockdown: Cele

SAPS doesn’t comply with domestic violence act, says Western Cape

Sudan teen convicted of murdering ‘rapist’ husband has death sentence overturned

Mbalula aims to make reporting gender based crimes less traumatic

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