South Africa to clean up high-risk areas after 12 women killed

"These audits must identify broken streetlights, overgrown public spaces, abandoned buildings, unsafe transport routes and facilities, poorly secured parks, and other conditions that place women at risk."Ramaphosa also announced an "enforcement package" to reduce alcohol-related violence."Alcohol does not cause gender-based violence and it can never excuse it. Responsibility always lies with the perpetrator," he said."But harmful alcohol use is a significant aggravating factor in interpersonal violence, and it must be addressed as part of our wider prevention effort."The South African president also said a deeper change, beyond policing and legislation, must take place to reduce violence against women and girls, saying it "does not begin when a fist is raised" or when a woman is raped or murdered."It begins much earlier," he said. "It begins in attitudes that regard women as inferior… with the belief that a man has the right to control a woman."It begins when jealousy is mistaken for love, when control is mistaken for protection and coercion is mistaken for affection."It begins when a man refuses to accept the word no."