SAFTU says women in South Africa continue to face a relentless epidemic of violence [SOUND]

# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says the country continues to record among the highest levels of violence against women in the world, yet too many perpetrators continue to believe that they can act with impunity. This comes as investigators continue probing the deaths of five women whose bodies were discovered in and around Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni. SAFTU’s spokesperson Asive Dyani says gender-based violence and femicide are not isolated criminal incidents but symptoms of a much deeper social crisis: