Gender-based violence and femicide are societal issues and cannot be done away with through the justice system alone. Society needs to reflect on some of the cultural practices that either consciously or unconsciously breathe life to GBVF, writes Phakamani Mthembu.
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Level 2 puts breaks on W Cape winter initiation season
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THE provincial health department has recommended a postponement of the traditional winter initiation season, which was to officially begin on Wednesday.
This is according to Cultural Affairs MEC Anroux Marais, adding that the advisory by the Western Cape Department of Health has been communicated to the stakeholders.
While the country was under Alert Level 1, her department had given the green light for the winter initiation season to go ahead from June 1 subject to the status of the Covid-19 pandemic and the approval of the Western Cape risk adjusted plan by the national Department of Traditional Affairs.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa
NATIONAL NEWS - President Cyril Ramaphosa says as people adapt to new ways of working and as they make use of technology to do their work, the digital revolution should also happen in rural areas.
The President said this when he addressed the opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders at the Old Assembly Chamber in Parliament on Thursday.
He said COVID-19 has changed people’s lives - it has changed the way everyone does things and people have also adapted.
“We have adopted new ways of working, new ways of doing things. We have also adopted technology processes that enable us to be able to meet rather cost effectively, but to carry on doing the work that needs to be done.