South Africa to clean up high-risk areas after women's murders
- South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a clean-up of high-risk areas across the country, after the bodies of 12 women were discovered in an area east of Johannesburg in just two months.
- The deaths sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.
- Ramaphosa announced what he called a multidisciplinary, national-level emergency response to the murders, for which there have been four arrests.
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- South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a clean-up of high-risk areas across the country, after the bodies of 12 women were discovered in an area east of Johannesburg in just two months.
- The deaths sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.
- Ramaphosa announced what he called a multidisciplinary, national-level emergency response to the murders, for which there have been four arrests.
Sources: BBC News