Victim Charter under the spotlight

Loyiso Langeni
26 November 2013

The Commission for Gender Equality last week released its report on the Victim Charter. 

The commission’s Dr Thabo Rapoo said there is a need for more action to be done on the ground rather then introducing more policies to prevent abuse against women and children. 

Dr Rapoo said another serious problem is that victims are forgotten in most cases.

“Our studies seem to suggest that much of the resources and the institutional might and machinery of our justice system is geared towards dealing with perpetrators of violence. And that’s understandable when someone has committed a crime, society finds the need to deal with them by putting them through procedures of justice”.