Mbalula urges abused women to leave bad relationships
25 May 2017
Cape Town - Women who are in abusive relationships should leave and no police station must turn them away, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said in Elsie's River on Thursday.
"Once a boyfriend klaps [smacks] you, you must run away," he told a packed Adriaanse Civic Hall - the same venue where the memorial service for 3-year-old murder victim Courtney Pieters took place.
"Yes!" the women in the audience called out in reply.
"You are going to put up with that until you see death," Mbalula said.