South Africa: Ramaphosa's Urgent Sitting in Parliament to Focus On Femicide, Gender-Based Violence

18 September 2019

Focus the attention of MPs and the nation at large on the crisis of gender-based violence and femicide - this is the purpose of the urgent sitting of both houses of Parliament which President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for on Wednesday.

The Constitution empowers the president to summon the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to an extraordinary sitting to conduct special business.

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