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Are our police failing domestic violence victims?

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Last week the Mitchells Plain Impact Association took to the streets of Cape Town demanding better police services. Among the protesters were victims and survivors of domestic violence. Dozens of residents, mainly women and children, marched from Tafelsig to Mitchells Plain Police Station with placards and posters demanding better services at the station. Their concerns include policemen not responding to calls of domestic violence and not protecting the community. The claim is that police are not taking domestic violence cases seriously.

The latest statistics from the South Africa Medical Research Council (MRC) highlight that an estimated two in five men (40%) assault their partners, and that three women in South Africa are killed by their intimate partner every day.

Are our police failing domestic violence victims? Well that’s the question we ask in tonight’s Burning Issue
26 Mar 2018 English South Africa News

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