More than 80,000 Eastern Cape girls from poor backgrounds are to receive free sanitary towels, courtesy of the department of social development.Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta announced on Tuesday that the department had begun the rollout of “sanitary dignity packs”, with one pack designed to last a girl the full school year.
Year in and year out, incidents of gender-based violence and femicide in the Eastern Cape read like the script of a horror movie. The crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele quarterly attest to the magnitude of the problem in the province.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down in Tsholomnqa possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.