Ramaphosa: We should all hang our heads in shame

Staff Reporter

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday meet senior leaders within the South African Police Service to get a briefing on steps being undertaken to stem the tide of gender based violence in the country, his office said in statement.

This followed the brutal murders of University of Cape Town Student Uyinene  Mrwetyana and SA boxing champion Leighandre Jegels.

“This is a very dark period for us as a country. The assaults, rapes and murders of South African women are a stain on our national conscience. We have just commemorated Women’s Month. Sixty three years after the women of 1956 marched for the right to live in freedom, women in this country live in fear – not of the apartheid police but of their brothers, sons, fathers and uncles. We should all hang our heads in shame,” said Ramaphosa.

I condemn the violence that has been