This, after a 32-year-old man has allegedly stabbed his partner’s three-year-old boy to death and critically injured another seven-year-old boy in Mahikeng in North West. Police spokesperson, Yvonne Tshabile, said the incident took place on Wednesday at the Bokone Village in Mahikeng and is appealing to anyone who might have information that could lead to the arrest of the suspect to come forward. The incidents came at the time when the country is reeling from cases of femicide and child abuse which led President Cyril Ramaphosa to call an urgent joint sitting of parliament to address the scourge of gender-based violence.

Web: During the urgent sitting last week, Ramaphosa vowed to put together a fund to address gender-based violence.

An interim committee in his office will have six months to implement an emergency five-point plan to deal with the scourge.

He outlined that the five-point plan will include measures on how to prevent gender-based violence in general, how to strengthen the criminal justice system, measures to enhance the legal and policy framework, how to ensure adequate care support and healing for victims of gender-based violence, as well as measures to improve economic empowerment of women.

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