“President Ramaphosa should rethink his statement that men are the problem when speaking about murder and assault,” said Ian Cameron, Director of Community Safety at Action Society. “It is typical for the government to shrug their shoulders and blame someone else when they are failing vulnerable South Africans.” The president
But Action Society director of community safety Ian Cameron claims Cele is misleading the country when it came to the DNA backlog. Read more https://www.citizen.co.za/news/saps-well-on-track-dna-backlog-da/
During the first nine months of 2022, South Africa saw the murder of 864 children, the attempted murder of 909 children and 5 502 cases of assault to do grievous bodily harm towards children. In the past six months, Action Society received a mandate to act as a watching brief
“Minister Bheki Cele should sign his letter of resignation and vacate his office,” said Tshepi Mmekwa, Action Centre coordinator at Action Society. “We’ve written it for him and delivered it to his office since he is so busy with imbizos and showboating on TV. We now await his signature.” Minister
Cape Town – General crime is the worst it’s been in South Africa for 20 years, the latest statistics show. Read more https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/crime-in-sa-up-by-185-grim-statistics-blamed-on-police-minister-5465924c-098c-4474-926b-6050c1f88273
Statistics have nothing to do with who the minister of police or commissioner was, or changes in policies. Read more https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/crime/crime-stats-not-reflection-saps-dropped-ball/
The quarter two crime statistics showed that crimes against women remained high compared to the same period in 2021 (during lockdown). Read more https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/live-saps-presents-quarterly-crime-statistics-20221123
She smiles, has a positive aura about her and can converse with people, but she is also vulnerable as she has an intellectual disability. A man living in the Paarl East area who goes by the name of Dean raped 23-year-old Portia Davids. Dean is aware of Portia’s disability, yet
A first professional photo shoot has left a young Paarl girl in trauma after a photographer allegedly raped her. Annie van Staden was 19 years old when she was sexually assaulted by a well-known photographer a year ago. She said about two years ago, she contacted Shaun Abrahams for his
Living on the train tracks in Mitchells Plain – being abused and begging for money to feed her boyfriend’s drug habits is no longer the life a 41-year-old woman wants for herself. Sonja Barrens sits on the hard brown benches outside the courtroom in Mitchell’s Plain with a red scarf
Action Society acts in the interest of the public through active advocacy for policy change. We work within the community to fight for a reformed justice system, holding government accountable for failing to protect South African citizens.
