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The rape of eight women at a mine dump in Krugersdorp on Gauteng’s West rand last week has once against shined the spotlight on the increasing incidents of gender-based violence in the country.

Demonstrators hold placards with messages against rape.

But what they found highlighted the enormous challenges and pressures that police work under. Gauteng for instance, which is the smallest and yet densely populated province, had a total of 143 police stations servicing a population of almost 16 million people. Moleko says in the police stations they visited there were no resources to do programmes to prevent violent crimes.

 

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IanCameron23 Neither do they steal, nor corrupt nor break the law.

Who organised this shoot? Permit to shoot on mine dumps? Security of personnel provided by police? The organisers .just be charged.

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