Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister, Lulu Xingwana, says Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape is one of the country’s women abuse hotspots. Xingwana has been speaking at the launch of 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children campaign at Lusikisiki.

The Eastern Cape coastal region, where Lusikisiki is located, has seen scores of elderly women killed for alleged witchcraft between 2009 and 2013. The Minister says she is happy that incidents of abduction of young girls by the custom of ‘ukuthwala’ or “forced marriages” have decreased.
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