One of the murdered women whose bodies were discovered in Ekurhuleni in Gauteng recently is expected to be laid to rest near in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape on Sunday.
Fourty-two-year-old Nomfesane Mjobo’s body was found in Kempton Park last month.
Twelve women’s bodies were found in the East Rand since July this year.
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Social Development MEC Bukiwe Fanta has called on society, including traditional leadership and churches to pull out all the stops to fight gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). She also says her department has offered psycho-social support services to the family.
Fanta says, “Our main job is to make sure that psycho-social support services are starting, we are doing assessment of the very home, we are making sure that we are taking through the children with psycho-social support so that they are able to deal.”
“It’s a terrible situation; they still need their mother, we are appealing to our churches, they must play a role and they are very key and important in building moral regeneration.”
She adds, “It’s men that are doing all these nasty things, the House of traditional leaders is key. We are taking boys to initiation schools. What are they taught there?”
