{"id":46984,"date":"2026-10-01T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46984"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:56:44","slug":"sa-acting-national-police-commissioner-calls-for-collective-action-against-gbvf","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-acting-national-police-commissioner-calls-for-collective-action-against-gbvf\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Acting National Police Commissioner calls for collective action against GBVF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Acting National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane, says tackling Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) cannot be the responsibility of the police alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">She says while law enforcement has a key role, prevention, support for victims and successful prosecutions also require action across the wider criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Dimpane was speaking at a week-long national inquiry examining SA&#8217;s response to gender-based violence and femicide, including the reporting of cases, victim support and the handling of investigations and prosecutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The inquiry comes after the discovery of the bodies of 12 women who were murdered in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15753,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46984","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Dimpane, says GBVF cannot be the responsibility of the police alone","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46985,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46984\/revisions\/46985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}