Premier Lesufi says efforts are being made to address forensic backlogs related to GBVF cases [SOUND]

# Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says an Identification Task Team has been established to conduct a digital fingerprint audit of unidentified women and children. This is part of the province’s response to the Presidential directives on gender-based violence and femicide. Since July, at least 12 women have been murdered in Ekurhuleni and other parts of the province. Lesufi says they are also working to reduce forensic waiting lists, improve compliance with police station intake procedures, recover lost dockets and strengthen the monitoring of missing-persons cases: