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North West implements plans to fight GBV─── LUCKY NKUYANE 07:00 Sat, 22 Oct 2022
The North West provincial government has implemented an initiative aimed at dealing with the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) across the province.
According to Premier Bushy Maape, each department will have two programmes in different areas focusing on GBV every month.
He says these departments will then also utilise and intensify the existing structures in departments by encouraging them to develop more campaigns on GBV.
OFM News previously reported that a 24-year-old man was arrested by the police in Schweizer-Reneke outside Bloemhof following the murder of a nursing sister in that area.
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Maape addressed a provincial summit on GBV held at Seasons Guest Lodge near Mahikeng on Friday 21 October 2022.
The North West provincial government will increase its efforts to fight GBV which has escalated over the past few years in communities.
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The province hosted this summit as a build-up to the second Presidential GBVF Summit to be held in November this year.
The summit in the province was held under the theme “Accountability, Acceleration and Amplification Now”, focusing on creating an opportunity for the province to deepen the understanding on GBV and Femicide, with a specific focus on different target groups.
