/ 6 February 2000

PROTEST AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

SEVERAL organisations including the ANC Women’s League and Women Against Child Abuse will demonstrate against domestic violence outside the Johannesburg magistrates court at 8.30am. on Monday. The demonstration is being planned to coincide with the start of judgement in the domestic violence trial of television personality Tracey Going and film-maker Richard Latham. The trial has dragged on for approximately two-and-a-half years. The organisers of Monday’s protest have invited people to join them in remembrance of women and children who have died as a result of domestic violence. “We want President Mbeki and his government to do more to stop this national shame,” Miranda Friedmann, spokeswoman for Women Against Child Abuse, said in a statement.