Innholdsfortegnelse for 2021-12-07 i Daily Voice

THE 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign started on 25 November and will end on 10 December. However, I feel with the way things are going in South Africa, this campaign should run 365 days a year. Whilst the most commonly recognised forms of abuse are physical, verbal, emotional and sexual, one also has to acknowledge the mental and economic abuse of women. Economic abuse is typically described as a form of abuse where one intimate partner has control over the other partner’s access to economic resources, which diminishes the victim’s (usually the female) capacity to support themselves and forces them to depend on the perpetrator (usually the male) financially. There is undoubtedly a link between economic abuse and domestic violence. The Covid-19 pandemic,…

TAFELSIG residents are demanding justice for Igshaan Philander, who died after allegedly being beaten to death at an Elsies River rehab. Over 60 angry residents boarded a bus to Goodwood Magistrates’ Court yes terday to oppose the bail applications by the owner of Synergy Rehabilitation and Upliftment Centre, Zaid Isaacs, and his co-accused Ederies Hendricks. The duo were busted last month after the bludgeoned body of the 36-year-old dad was found dumped in Philippi a day after his family was told he had run away from the rehab, less than a week after he was booked in. Investigation Igshaan’s murder has sparked an investigation by the Department of Social Development, who say the Ruyterwacht rehab was not registered and shut it down. This after several clients came forward to report…