Thuthuzela Care Centres boost GBVF conviction rates: Adv Currie-Gamwo

The Special Director of Public Prosecutions for Sexual Offences, Advocate Bonnie Currie-Gamwo, says the Thuthuzela Care Centres have played a significant role in increasing the conviction rate in cases of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF).

The Thuthuzela Care Centres (TCC) are one-stop facilities that provide pre-trial services that include psycho-social, medical and legal services to victims of GBV.  The launch increases the number of centres to 65 countrywide.

Currie-Gamwo says these centres have empowered victims. “The Thuthuzel Care Centre (TCC) model works because we see it in the conviction rate because we’ve empowered the victim to be able to tell their story in a court. The conviction rate in 2010 stood at 60%. It now stands at 78%.”

“Defeating the scourge of gender-based violence is not the duty of one department, one civil society organisation, or one private sector entity. It is the responsibility of everyone in society to work together to bring it to an end.”

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