EDITORIAL | Sonia Mbele deserves applause for her actions under difficult circumstances

This is how you treat rape and abuse accusations, with extreme sensitivity and caution

23 November 2022 - 21:13

On Wednesday on the sidelines of police minister Bheki Cele releasing SA’s embarrassing statistics on crimes such as gender-based violence, actor-turned-producer Sonia Mbele offered a template of how to react when they learn their children, sons, brothers or fathers are alleged perpetrators of such crimes. ..

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