On 18 June 2020, Deputy Minister of Justice John Jeffery asked the Public Protector (then Busisiwe Mkhwebane) to investigate the administrative challenges faced by GBV victims in the criminal justice system.
Public Protector, Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka released a report on findings on the difficulties experienced by GBV victims when reporting cases at magistrate courts
Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren murdered his ex-girlfriend, Andrea Venter, in 2011 by stabbing her several times and slitting her throat at her apartment in Lonehill.
Little Raynecia Kortje was strangled and drowned in a wheelie bin by her father before he bashed in her mother’s head with a fire extinguisher and stabbed her to death for breaking up with him.