Crackdown on South Africa’s unsafe streets ordered by president to keep women safe

He said gender-based violence could not "be accepted as a normal part of life" and admitted that South Africa had "not done enough" to protect women and girls.

The South African president also said a deeper change, beyond policing and legislation, must take place to reduce violence against women and girls, saying it "does not begin when a fist is raised" or when a woman is raped or murdered.

The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in a country that has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.