Johannesburg – The Federation of Unions of South Africa is "vehemently insistent" that the government come up with special strategies for dealing with gender-based violence and child abuse as complaints drastically increased in the first week of the Covid-19 lockdown, the trade union federation said on Sunday.
The calls from women living in abusive relationships included a complaint against a police officer who had allegedly raped his wife. The officer had since been arrested, Fedusa said. "These include provisions for ejecting perpetrators from their families and detaining them in places of quarantine. Fedusa also appealed to the government to increase the number of mobile clinics, both for Covid-19 testing and for treating victims of gender-based violence in all regions of the country, with a special focus on vulnerable areas such as densely populated townships and informal settlements.
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