Imogen Vollenhoven
1
March 2013
The Commission for Gender equality has
noted the refusal of bail for one of the accused Jonathan Davids in the Anene
Booysen’s rape and murder trail.
CGE’s Amanda Gouws said the issue is that
Mr Davids did not get bail even though he proclaims his innocent and as CGE
they say that this is the way the law works, the justice system works and he
will be remanded and they hope that he will have a fair trial.
Co-accused Johannes Kana did not seek
bail.
The CGE said it hopes the state in
preparing this case will up its game to ensure that people’s confidence in the
justice system is enhanced, especially for victims and the survivors of
violence and gender based crime.
Gouws says the important thing of bail is that
it can be denied on presumption that somebody was involved in a murder but it
can also be the fierce to protect someone, when they go back into the community
there may be retribution.
Gouws furthermore adds that she thinks for
both Davids and Kanna there is a big possibility that if they go back into the Bredarsdorp
community that there may be vigilante justice against them.
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