All police stations now have rape evidence collection kits, Cele assures MPs

All police stations now have sufficient rape evidence collection kits, Police Minister Bheki Cele assured the National Assembly on Wednesday.

In September, Cele said all police stations would have the kits by October 14. However, he missed the deadline, despite President Cyril Ramaphosa having said he would monitor this himself. When Ramaphosa answered questions in the National Council of Provinces on October 10, DA MP Cathy Labuschagne asked him to undertake that this would indeed be the case."I will monitor this myself," he said without committing to a date. Two weeks later, when Ramaphosa answered questions in the National Assembly, DA MP Siviwe Gwarube said the money allocated to fight gender-based violence meant nothing if the police couldn't gather evidence.

She said Cele hadn't met the deadline he set for when each police station was supposed to have had the rape evidence collection kits for adults and children. 76% of police stations didn't have adult kits, and 69% didn't have kits for children.Ramaphosa said he was"really, really disturbed" to hear this and promised to speak to the minister.

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