Magistrate Jeff Jantjies spoke to a passionate crowd about domestic violence after they had marched to the Darling court against injustices in their community.
Local authorities and important stakeholders came together in Darling on Friday morning (25 November) to launch 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children.
This forms part of a much larger campaign that takes place nationally and internationally every year in the last week of November and early December. It aims to shed light and find solutions to the enormous problem of gender-based violence in South Africa.
According to Sergeant Jonathan Filander, a spokesperson for the Darling police, the Department of Social Development, the Darling police, community members, the Darling Outreach Foundation, local churches, the Community Policing Forum (CPF) and local neighbourhood watches took part in the launch.
The group marched to the Darling Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning, when Jantjies, senior magistrate of the Malmesbury court, who was presiding over local interdict cases in Darling that morning, spoke to them, also decrying the grim reality of abuse, neglect and domestic violence.
The group, at the start of the campaign, committed themselves to keeping on waging the battle to protect the most vulnerable in their community.
