Cape Town — Police officers and social workers should treat abuse and rape cases with more seriousness, a ministerial committee said on Wednesday.
"We cannot continue having social workers, police officers and health workers who treat issues of domestic violence as a private matter," the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Violence against Women and Children said in a statement.
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