The EFF wants tougher laws, including more accountability from the police, to boost the fight against gender-based violence.
EFF leader Julius Malema said South African women still lived under a dark cloud of fear, abuse, economic and social exclusion. File photo.The EFF wants tougher laws, including more accountability from the police, to boost the fight against gender-based violence .
The unit would also investigate cases where police are complicit or are alleged to be the perpetrators of crimes against women, children and on gender-based violence crimes. He said while the democratic dispensation brought about many constitutional rights, which are supposed to protect and uplift women, some these rights have not translated into reality.
He took issue with police officers, who, despite rape being rife in the country, continued to subject rape victims to secondary harassment and ridicule, and would instruct them to resolve abuse as a family matter.
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