CHARL CILLIERS – Local police, organisations and the community marched in Charl Cilliers to create awareness of gender-based violence and women and child abuse on Friday, 27 November.
The march began at Charl Cilliers multi-purpose centre to a filling station on R546 road to Standerton.
Victims of domestic violence raised their concerns regarding the handling of their cases by the local police.
Some said they reported their abusers to police but the police always try to mediate instead of arresting the perpetrators.
Mr. Sipho Khuzwayo from the Department of Safety, Security and Liaison in Mpumalanga promised that he will attend to these issues and explained that the police’s role is to open cases, not to mediate.
“Only the court can decide on criminal cases.”
Some of the issues raised during this campaign included the failure of the to police to communicate clearly with the victims of abuse and sending them to the relevant departments for assistance.
Communities in the surrounding areas came in numbers as this was the beginning of the 16 days of activism against woman and children abuse.
