Council of Churches calls for urgent protection of women [SOUND]

# The South African Council of Churches is calling for urgent action to protect women following the discovery of eight women’s bodies on Gauteng’s East Rand over two months. General-secretary, Reverend Mzwandile Molo, told the SABC the deaths in Kempton Park, Olifantsfontein and Springs have sparked fear and outrage. He calls for swift investigations, prosecutions, and implementation of the earlier declaration of gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster: