Police Minister Bheki Cele said forensic services had started the process of analysing the DNA of more than 80 suspects
Police outside the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg, 1 August 2022, where over 80 suspects appeared after they were arrested in Gauteng following the gang rape of eight women. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
While questions about the Krugersdorp rapes linger, gender-based violence activists say between DNA backlogs, illegal migrants and miners, and policing system failure, it was clear many victims of GBV and other crimes would never see justice.Regardless of the magnitude of a case, every victim and survivor deserved justice. However, the government was not seeing the urgency in the DNA process.
However, Action Society’s Ian Cameron said now with the Krugersdorp case, there was a sudden “urgency” for DNA processing with the SA Police Service, whilst in May there was a more than 56 000-case backlog and none of the public-private partnerships Cele promised had been realised.
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