Gender-based violence: justice system moving too slow

RAPE victims in South Africa, such as Andy Kawa, who has waged a decade-long battle for justice, including holding the police to account for their tardiness in investigating her case, should seek recourse from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, says human rights activist Zonke Majodina.

“If she has exhausted all remedies available to her nationally, she must go international, her case deserves to be heard at that level. What she has been through, amounts to a form of torture, as defined by the International Convention Against Torture,” said Majodina.

Kawa’s battle for justice is being decided by the Constitutional Court after she was raped in a 15-hour ordeal on