DA concerned by the increasing levels of gender-based violence [SOUND]

# The DA says the country’s never-ending plague of gender-based violence and domestic abuse is concerning. In recent weeks, a 19-year-old was caught on video assaulting his 82-year-old grandmother in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. In Mpumalanga, an 83-year-old woman in Dikweteng village was raped and stabbed. The DA’s, Angel Khanyile, says one of the biggest obstacles to addressing this scourge is the underfunded budget allocated to combatting gender-based and family violence, severely hampering the prioritisation of these cases: