02/08/2024
The need is now for there to be a public effort to amend the Protection from Harassment Act and the Domestic Violence Act.
The Act has not become user friendly at all to complainants especially when the aggressor plays the victim. By example, aggressor Respondents evade 'service' of protection orders as a means of averting the finalisation of the application.
The courts must receive directives in the interpretation of the procedures that effectively have clerks to be able not to be intimidated by the aggressor respondents to the detriment of the victim applicant.
Quite urgently, the need is now for the service of application papers and orders to be condoned and accepted via WhatsApp and email. Not only is it cost effective, it will find itself to the aggressor, as the mobile device is an extension of the hand of the population.
In the month honouring women leading to the 16 days of activism, it is frightening to view the nonchalant and arrogant conduct of narcissistic social predators who freely abuse women online, by way of body shaming, with sexual innuendos and other pathetic insults.
lest it be said, the unwritten definition of an aggressor lays into the fact that the bully aggressor extends his/her narcissism and manipulative persuasion to the corridors of the courts/police stations and this ultimately is the travesty for the human race.