# The Inkatha Freedom Party Women’s Brigade has condemned the rape of a seven-year-old child in Bergview College in Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. Deputy chairperson Helen Makhuba questions the lack of arrests, teacher vetting, and social worker availability. While the college has been deregistered, Makhuba demands urgent answers from education, police, and social development authorities. She emphasised that gender-based violence remains a national crisis, and called for greater child protection and justice.
IFP Women’s Brigade demands justice for raped child in Eastern Cape