The pressure group Action Society is urging president Cyril Ramaphosa to take immediate action against the EFF leader, Julius Malema, for threatening to attack police officers and their families at their homes. “Since almost 40% of the SAPS’ workforce (69,653 members) is women, this threat should be taken seriously. As

Action Society holds the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, directly ex officio responsible for every woman and child being raped in South Africa (SA). This comes after his pathetic response in parliament on 11 November 2020 stating people should stop overreacting to the distressing backlog of 117,000 DNA cases. For

The reaction on social media is overwhelming after a day-old baby was found around 20h00 on Monday night in a Beaufort-West water drain — on world adoption day. “Annually more than 3,500 babies are found in sewer pipes, rubbish bins, dense fields and even buried in shallow graves, because their

Annually more than 3,500 babies are found in sewer pipes, garbage bins, isolated fields and even buried in shallow graves because their desperate mother, due to circumstances, could not offer them a future. The South African Medical Research Council (SAMNR) goes as far to claim that twice as many abandoned

Action Society calls on government to empower civil society organisation to assist in addressing the inefficiencies in the DNA testing and investigation processes to accelerate the prosecution of sexual offenders. Since the National Forensic Science Laboratories (NFLS) has ground to a near halt over 125,000 cases, of which 92% are

The National Forensic Science Laboratories (NFLS) has ground to a near halt as it simply has no consumables or maintenance contracts for the highly sensitive machinery has not been renewed. As a result over 125,000 cases — of which 92% are sexual assault kits — have not been processed, says

The pressure group Action Society is urging to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to end the state of disaster with immediate effect. This comes after she indicated that she will be likely extending the lockdown regulations by another month.   “By prolonging the state

The idea of phoning the police to report the police sounds as far-fetched as the outcome of government’s new toll free whistleblowing project will be. This is the concern of Action Society after Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) yesterday launched a toll free number, 0800-111-969, through which citizens can report