MEC Ntuli: Sexual offences still high in KZN
Community Safety MEC Bheki Ntuli says government is deeply concerned by the rise in sexual offences in the province.
Ntuli visited families of three deceased women who were victims of Gender-Based Violence in Ulundi and Nongoma yesterday.
He says he chose these two districts as over 200 sexual offences were collectively reported in those areas last year.
The visit forms part of his ongoing engagements with various districts in the province following the release of the latest crime stats, which revealed KZN as the leading province for contact crimes.
"The first family had a 70-year-old grandmother killed. I then visited another family where their daughter who was a law student at UniZulu was raped and killed", he said.
"I then visited a family whose member was raped. In that particular case the relatives of the perpetrators are the ones who brought them before law enforcement authorities", Ntuli said.