Justice Minister Kubayi vows to ensure tighter systems in place to punish violent crimes against women & children

JOHANNESBURG - Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has vowed to ensure that tighter systems are in place to punish violent crimes against women and children amid a spate of attacks that have rocked the country.

Kubayi accepted memoranda from child protection organisations during a march to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Sunday.

The march was jointly organised with the Gauteng Department of Social Development to provide a platform for children to raise their safety concerns, as the country observes Child Protection Awareness Month.

Kubayi said that rapes, murders and human trafficking were among the issues that needed to be urgently addressed.

While she said that she did not support the death penalty, Kubayi said that the sentence must fit the crime.

"We can't have parents commercialising their children. It has to stop and all of us have to work together to stop this. We are saying on our side, we will continue to improve the systems."