A 66-year-old man from Cape Town has been jailed for an effective eight years for distributing child pornography after claiming he gathered the material for “investigative purposes”.
As a nation we all “signed” a social contract that binds us to respect the rule of law in a rights-based regime that places a certain amount of responsibility on individuals involved in matters such as this.
What is clear, is that we cannot rely on ineffective and often-patriarchal justice systems in order to address GBV or to protect women and girls from the scourge.