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The regional Secretary for the National Education Health and Allied Workers\u2019 Union (NEHAWU), Mthuthuzeli Somkonko, appealed to the police service to ensure that they follow up in the cases reported about gender-based violence (GBV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The members of this organisation, together with its allied unions, marched to St Barnabas Hospital in Libode with the aim of sending a message about GBV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the march they launched the 16 Days of Activism against Women and Children, also at this hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somkonko said that this could help the victims to be more interested in reporting these cases, if they see perpetrators are arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He confirmed that the members of this organisation held a congress in Mthatha in May where, among the resolutions they made, was that the issue of 16 Days of Activism against Women and Children must not be a once-off thing, but a continuous programme until this behaviour ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are here today at St Barnabas Hospital to revive that resolution. We want to ensure that we change the mind set of men, to know that as men we have no right to abuse other human beings. The statistics show that most of the time men are the ones who are abusing women and children.<\/div>\n
Somkonko<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

He added that as they had started this programme in St Barnabas, they would continue to host it at other branches of King Sabatha Dalindyebo (KSD) Local Municipality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Speaker for King Sabatha Dalindyebo (KSD) Local Municipality, Councillor Nomamfengu Siyo-Sokuthu, said community members are the ones who are supposed to stand up and fight the issue of GBV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that street committees and community policing forums should be established within the communities, and also there should be workplace forums in the working areas, who will also play a role in fighting this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmployers must know that employees should be happy in the work place in order to be productive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must know that GBV is a crime that we need to fight,\u201d said Siyo-Sokuthu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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