LISTEN | GBV activists losing faith in police

10 October 2021 - 00:00

One beaten into a coma; another doused in acid; a third slipping from a second-storey window as she tried to flee. These Gauteng women are among hundreds affected by a sharp rise in reported incidents of gender-based violence (GBV) in Gauteng, and activists say their suffering is compounded when the police turn away survivors...

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