South Africa launches emergency response after 12 women killed near Johannesburg
South Africa's president has announced a national emergency response after the bodies of 12 women were discovered in an area east of Johannesburg over a two-month period. The deaths have triggered widespread concern about violence against women in a country that already faces one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world. The announcement came on Tuesday as authorities faced pressure to respond to the scale and apparent clustering of the killings.Cyril Ramaphosa said the government would begin a multidisciplinary, national-level response to the murders. He said there had been four arrests in connection with the case, but... [Continue Reading]
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