City tackles domestic violence head-on
6 September 2019
The City of Cape Town's Metro Police and Social Development and Early Childhood Development Departments host several programmes and initiatives to curb domestic violence throughout the year.
'Women and children across the city are still suffering under high levels of domestic violence. As a city which aims to be world class, we cannot sit by idly where women, children and the elderly are abused and not respected. Domestic violence awareness and education is one of the four focus areas of the Social Crime Prevention (SCP) interventions of the City's Metro Police Department and is aimed at breaking the silence around this scourge,' said the City of Cape Town’s Executive Mayor, Alderman Dan Plato.
SCP has presented the eight-week workshops in Manenberg, Elsies River-Leonsdale, Belhar, Khayelitsha, Harare, Temperance Town in Gordons Bay, Goodwood, Kuilsriver, Hout Bay, and Hanover Park.
The presentation is also delivered on request at primary and high schools, NGOs, churches and during school holiday programmes.