By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - While the South African Police Service uses domestic relationship-related crimes as a proxy to measure intimate partner violence, Gender-Based-Violence not being defined as a specific offence in South African law is unacceptable. That's according to community activist and councillor, Jonathan Annipen. He was speaking to Newsbreak's Shanell Daniel after a woman was killed by her husband and their sons injured by the man before taking his own life recently in Chatsworth, south of Durban. Annipen says GBV is a pandemic that needs urgent attention...

<p>By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - While the South African Police Service uses domestic relationship-related crimes as a proxy to measure intimate partner violence, Gender-Based-Violence not being defined as a specific offence in South African law is unacceptable. That's according to community activist and councillor, Jonathan Annipen. He was speaking to Newsbreak's Shanell Daniel after a woman was killed by her husband and their sons injured by the man before taking his own life recently in Chatsworth, south of Durban. Annipen says GBV is a pandemic that needs urgent attention...</p>

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