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Cultural practices

Gender-based violence on the rise in the Western Cape

6th June 2018 Bernard Chiguvare 0

In a meeting with various organisations the Commission for Gender Equality revealed that incest, parents forcing children into marriage, female farm workers sleeping with male supervisors to secure work, and child trafficking for sex work is rife in the Western Cape.

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