The National Assembly will hold a debate this afternoon, to mark the end of Women’s Month. The theme for this year’s debate is advancing gender equality through inclusive economic growth and precepts of a developmental state.
The debate comes at a time when the country is seeing the brutal murder of some women which are making headlines.
A 23-year-old fourth-year law student at Fort Hare Nosicelo Mtebeni’s body parts were found in a body bag in East London after she was murdered allegedly by her boyfriend.
The community of Khaue where Mtebeni is from has called for the return of the death penalty to deal with GBV:
Fifty-three-year-old senior Gauteng Health Department official Babita Deokaran who was a whistleblower in the Personal Protective Equipment scandal was recently gunned down outside her home in Winchester Hills in Johannesburg shortly after dropping off her daughter at school.
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