KZN Premier encourages women to report abuse by their partners

KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Thami Ntuli is encouraging women to speak out early and report abuse by their partners. Ntuli was speaking at the home of two sisters, Nandipha and Nangamso Lifana, who were shot and killed by a man at Lindelani township at Umzinto on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.

The sisters’ neighbour was wounded in the attack. The man committed suicide after the incident.

He was the father of Nandipha’s baby.

Ntuli says on the same day there was another incident in the same area where a woman was killed by her partner, who also committed suicide.

Ntuli says women should not stay in abusive relationships.

“The second issue is for the women not to be silent in an (abusive) relationship. At the earliest possible time, they must report to their families, and families must not encourage women to persevere in a relationship that is an abusive relationship, because the ultimate end of an abusive relationship is for the women to be killed and to lose their lives. I think we need to do more as government. We need to do more as the entire society. We need to do more as the traditional leaders in the society because it is (our) collective responsibility that (we) address successfully this scourge of gender-based violence and femicide,” says Ntuli.