Faizel Patel – 12/06/2020
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NGO Not in My Name says gender-based violence has worsened under the COVID-19 lockdown.
This comes after South Africans experienced anger and horror at another senseless death of a woman in country.
Twenty-Eight-year-old Tshegofatso Pule who was eight months pregnant was repeatedly stabbed and her body hanged from a tree in Johannesburg.
She and her unborn child were laid to rest in a painful funeral on Thursday.
Speaking to Radio Islam, Not In My Name’s Themba Masongo says the horrific attacks on women and children cannot continue.
“South Africa right now is facing two pandemics. That is the Coronavirus and also gender based violence against women and children. We are seeing that and it seems as though we have men in our society who are at war with women.”
Masongo says they want the death penalty reinstated for gender-based violence.
“We are not calling for a blanket death penalty. We are not saying for just any crime. We are saying for proven crimes and where the suspect is convicted and it is proven that it is them and it is for heinous crimes such as this where you are finding a person raping a 3-month-old baby.”
Masongo says most of the developed nations in the world have the death penalty as a deterrent for criminals committing heinous crimes.
Listen to the interview with Themba Masongo
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