Action Society welcomes the sentencing of a pastor for molesting a six-year-old girl in Atlantis in the Western Cape. Aubrey Jooste was sentenced to imprisonment in the Atlantis Magistrate’s Court this week. Jooste initially faced a charge of rape and indecent assault; however, he was acquitted of the rape charge.
The Langa Police Station in Cape Town is not taking the dangers involved with gender-based violence seriously enough. Action Society has been mandated to assist a woman whose attacker received bail while she was still in the hospital recovering from the ordeal he put her through. The 37-year-old woman’s ex-boyfriend
The Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, has been caught lying about the DNA backlog yet again, just as Action Society predicted. In his answer to a parliamentary question about the DNA backlog state, the minister confirmed that the total current national DNA case entries stood at 55 891 at the
The ANC councillor caught on video sexually abusing young men and charged with statutory rape, Tebogo Sepale, is still receiving his salary, almost two months after his acts became public. The ANC says he will continue to be paid until he receives bail. Sepale is a ward councillor in the
Action Society welcomes the court’s decision to deny bail to the two men who allegedly raped and sexually assaulted 19 women at a Khayelitsha church on Easter Sunday this year. Yesterday, the Action Society team was at the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court. On 9 April 2023, the churchgoers were forced to
Another month has gone by in which Siphokazi Booi’s abuser-murderer Sithobele Qebe, “Rasta” in the community, did not pay for his actions. He will appear in court on 27 June 2023 for the umpteenth time. Qebe murdered Siphokazi in September 2021, then chopped up her body, stuffed it into a
Despite one murder every 20 minutes and a minimum of one rape every 12 minutes, Cyril Ramaphosa prefers to waste money on a PR stunt that is nothing more than a ‘cheap’ trick. “Our violent crime rate is worse than some active war zones. South Africa is a blood bath,”
Action Society has been mandated by the family of the German tourist Nick Frischke, who went missing in February 2023 in Cape Town, to look into the matter in terms of case oversight and private investigation. The 22-year-old went missing on Valentine’s Day while he was on a hike in
It has come to light that violent criminals at the Mitchells Plain, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Bluedowns and Belville regional courts now receive free bail because the Department of Justice is not paying court interpreters. When the criminals’ cases cannot continue, it gets temporarily removed from the court roll as they must
A senseless revenge attack left a young woman disabled, wheelchair-bound, with severe brain damage, yet, her assaulter was out on bail the next day. Action Society will now monitor the case of Sivenathi Toto, 23, from George, Western Cape. Toto was assaulted in an alleged revenge attack in August 2022.
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.
