The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) says it’s time to consider introducing the death penalty as punishment for certain gender-based violence crimes.
IFP MP Mthokozisi Nxumalo made the call as he condemned the rate at which gender-based violence was affecting women and children.
He participated in a debate gender-based violence which was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
EFF NC @veronica_mente says we need a Parliament of action. We must hold the police and NPA accountable. The judiciary should stop releasing rapists back into society .
We must do our bit to stop the war against women in this country. pic.twitter.com/zO2HcRsrrU
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) June 30, 2020
Nxumalo also called on various sectors of society to intensify the campaign against the violence.
“Possibly it might be a time to revisit the death penalty, so that those who violate and steal the lives of innocent women in our country have to forfeit their own lives. Honourable House chair, the IFP calls on government, political parties, civil society and face based organisations and all South Africans who refuse to stand by as this war on women and children in our communities take place, [to] come together to fight this gender based violence,” explains Nxumalo.
In the video below, Parliament debates Gender-Based Violence:
