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Around 61,000 rape cases have been closed across the country over the past five years, due to a lack of evidence.
As the country commemorates Women’s Month, organisations like the National Shelter Movement feel that women are being left behind.
Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu, recently made the shocking revelation that more than 274,000 criminal cases were shut in the Western Cape between April 2018 and December 2023 without result, due to insufficient evidence or leads.
The National Shelter Movement is now calling on the Police and the National Prosecuting Authority to tighten up processes and plug the cracks in the system, so that GBV-cases are prosecuted successfully.
The National Shelter Movement’s Nobesuthu Ramukhotheli says it’s unacceptable that thousands of gender-based violence case dockets simply go missing.
Ramukhotheli says they’re calling on the authorities to put all their effort into closing the loopholes and getting rid of corrupt individuals.
Several attempts to get a comment from the NPA and SAPS at national level, have been unsuccessful.
