by SIMANGELE MZIZI
The South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has confirmed that the department will meet with Cape Town gay rights NGO Luleki Sizwe for talks about the organisation’s petition calling for government to have corrective rape declared a hate crime and combated.
Over 1 million signatures supporting the petition have been collected worldwide, also calling for the harshest sentences to perpetrators of corrective rape and that government acknowledges the existence of corrective rape which, it says the government seems to deny at present.
“We will meet with Luleki Sizwe to discuss the matter. I called them last week to enquire about the logistical aspects of this meeting. They indicated that they would like the meeting to take place in Cape Town. In all likelihood the meeting will take place in Cape Town”, Tlali Tlali spokesperson for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said.
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