The organisation's executive director Shenilla Mohamed said the government did not appear to take the GBVF pandemic seriously, despite several commitments to fight the scourge.
She said there was little regard for the right to life and those who live in the country and that women and girls are not safe. Mohamed said the families of Popi Qwabe and her best friend Bongeka Phungula are among the many families still waiting for justice. According to Amnesty International’s annual report for 2021, there were 117 cases of femicide in the first half of the year, while there were 14,188 reported cases of sexual offences between October and December.
The DNA backlog of 58,000 cases is cleared by the end of September, as publicly committed to by minister for police Bheki Cele on March 24.
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