Cape Town - Singer Simphiwe Dana has slammed the justice system after she was threatened with arrest because her allegedly abusive former fiancé, who she identified as Leshoto Itsweng, laid counter charges of assault and crime injuria against her.
She also questioned how men accused of assaulting their partners are allowed to lay counter-charges against them, saying that this was a known intimidation tactic designed to get the women to drop their charges. On December 27 last year Itsweng allegedly assaulted Dana, and three days later, on December 30, she laid assault charges against him at the Norwood police station. On the same day she revealed the details of the assault on social media.
View this post on Instagram This guy spat in my face. Strangled me. Told me he would slit my throat and get away with it. Said his friend in the police force runs the province. A Mr Langa, who Im sure knows nothing of his abusive ways. I was intended to marry him. I don’t play that game. In a world where we have sleepless nights for our daughters. A man threatening me in this way will have all my wrath.
"The swiftness with which the police respond to the countercharges by imprisoning the survivor serves to perpetuate inequality and re-victimisation. As things stand, pressing counter-charges is increasingly being used as a weapon to intimidate women into dropping charges. In a society where violence against women is such a scourge, surely this merits some kind of review?"
What’s news.....women lay false charges against us all the time
You meant 'laid '.
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