Nkoana-Mashabane: No leniency must be shown to perpetrators of GBV

Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and People with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, has urged men to speak up against Gender Based Violence.

Nkoana Shabane has said this after the body of Tshegofatso Pule, from Gauteng was found hanging from a tree on Monday with multiple stab wounds.

She was eight months pregnant.

Nkoana Shabane says it’s unacceptable that women have to grapple with COVID19 and GBV at the same time.

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Minister of police, Bheki Cele, has also confirmed that cases of domestic violence and gender based violence have increased since the lockdown started.

meanwhile the organisation, Not In My Name, is calling for the death penalty in gender-based violence crimes.

Not in My Name’s, Themba Masango, says Correctional Services are simply breeding hardened criminals who become repeat offenders.

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By: Sanelisiwe Dlangamandla & Bright Ntuli