{"id":2722,"date":"2012-10-10T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2012-10-10T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:45:20","slug":"care-centres-to-protect-elderly-from-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Care centres to protect elderly from rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blackgranny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2723\" title=\"blackgranny\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blackgranny-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blackgranny-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blackgranny.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Adult daycare centres are being introduced in KwaZulu-Natal to protect grandmothers from rape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The provincial social development department resolved to construct the centres following a spate of attacks on elderly women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social development MEC Weziwe Thusi said yesterday that the first centre will be in KwaSwayimane, in the Midlands, the village where two grannies were raped a week apart. Thusi yesterday said at least R7-million has been set aside for the KwaSwayimane centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 94-year-old great-grandmother was raped in the village in August. A week later, an 84-year-old grandmother was raped in the same village. In the same month, a 74-year-old woman was raped, stabbed and robbed in her granny flat in Bisley, in Pietermaritzburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, a 70-year-old woman was raped in her home in front of her grandchildren at Matsheketsheni Reserve, in Sundumbili on the north coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the court appearance of a 26-year-old man, accused of raping the 94-year-old, frigthened the elderly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It will operate like creches. People will leave their grannies on the way to work and pick them up in the afternoon,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The centre will have a daycare facility for young children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of department Bheki Nkosi said drugs played a role in the abuse of elderly women in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have knowledge of the kinds of drugs that make young people high and they commit such crimes. We want to push a campaign of anti-drugs and substance abuse vigorously because it&#8217;s one of the contributors to the rapes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thusi conceded that old age homes were not popular in some communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult daycare centres are being introduced in KwaZulu-Natal to protect grandmothers from rape. The provincial social development department resolved to construct the centres following a spate of attacks on elderly women. Social development MEC Weziwe Thusi said yesterday that the first centre will be in KwaSwayimane, in the Midlands, the village where two grannies were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Care centres to protect elderly from rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1723,1541,36,12250],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-care-centres","tag-elderly","tag-rape","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blackgranny.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}