According to the Provincial  Chairperson of the Social Cluster and MEC for Health, Madoda Sambatha, departmental plans of developing a comprehensive LGBTQI+ programme - aimed at preventing victimisation of members of the LGBTQI+ community is at an advanced stage.

He says that department has budgeted R15 million to strengthen and fund non-profit organisations to enable them to continue to provide care and support for victims of GBV and other crimes.

Sambatha said the department has launched an Orange Day initiative to raise awareness to eliminate all forms of violence by wearing the colour orange on the 25th of every month.

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Members of the Provincial Legislature had recently voiced their frustrations with escalating cases of teenage girls and women who are being murdered almost daily in the North West. The EFF MPL Kelebogile Kerileng had said that the plight of women and children should not be taken lightly.

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This after a body of a Grade 9 learner from Vryburg Secondary School was discovered at the Vryburg cemetery in North West.

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