{"id":18667,"date":"2019-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=73a36086c7b7b1fc27ae557390a9a119"},"modified":"2019-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"south-african-president-calls-for-joint-sitting-of-parliament-to-address-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/south-african-president-calls-for-joint-sitting-of-parliament-to-address-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"South African president calls for joint sitting of Parliament to address gender-based violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>PRETORIA, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament to discuss measures to combat rising gender-based violence in the country.<\/P><P>We all have a responsibility to ensure that these events become a turning point in our fight to end gender-based violence, Ramaphosa said in a letter to the National Assembly, the lower house, and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), the upper house.<\/P><P>Ramaphosa in the letter repeated his call for enhancing protection of women and girls against abuse and violence.<\/P><P>The National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise and the NCOP Chairperson Amos Masondo said they have received the letter about the sitting, which is scheduled for Sept 18.<\/P><P>Violence perpetrated against women in recent weeks, during which dozens of femicides were reported, has prompted widespread protests against gender-based violence around the country.<\/P><P>Since August when South Africans celebrated Women&#8217;s Month dedicated to the protection of women, South Africa has been deeply traumatized by acts of extreme violence against women and children.<\/P><P>These included the murders of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana, a Cape Town University student, Leighandre Jegels, South African boxing champion, and 14-year-old Janika Mallo, whose body was found in her grandmother&#8217;s back yard in Cape Town after being raped and murdered.<\/P><P>Official statistics show that last year alone, almost 40,000 cases of rape were reported in South Africa, with most of the victims being women.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: Nam News Network<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament to discuss measures to combat rising gender-based violence in the country.We all have a responsibility to ensure that these events become a tur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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