{"id":201248,"date":"2021-09-08T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/domestic-violence-amendment-bill-revised-to-reflect-gender-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:14:03","slug":"domestic-violence-amendment-bill-revised-to-reflect-gender-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/domestic-violence-amendment-bill-revised-to-reflect-gender-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Violence Amendment Bill revised to reflect gender-neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Domestic Violence Amendment Bill has been revised to reflect gender-neutrality.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s gender neutrality amendments were approved during a sitting of Parliament\u2019s Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The move will make this South Africa\u2019s second gender-neutral Act after the Cybercrimes Act.<\/p>\n

In the bill\u2019s amendments, traditional pronouns such as \u201che\u201d, \u201cshe\u201d, \u201chim\u201d or \u201cher\u201d, have been replaced by gender neutral terms such as \u201cthey\u201d, \u201cthem\u201d or \u201ctheir\u201d where appropriate.<\/p>\n

Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, John Jeffery, said gender-neutral terms seek to include every person in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cA non-binary [term] is more inclusive because you don\u2019t just have \u2018he\u2019 and \u2018she\u2019, you also have\u2026 intersex people or people who don\u2019t identify as either. In the context of domestic violence, I think gender identity becomes very important,\u201d the Deputy Minister said.<\/p>\n

Committee chairperson, Gratitude Magwanishe, said language used in legislation is bound to evolve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI generally think that non-binary language is going to become a standard way of drafting [legislation] going forward… to ensure that our legislation is inclusive of everybody. So a lot of investment is needed in ensuring that [Members of Parliament] and officials in departments are trained to write in that way going forward. Society is evolving and our legislation should also evolve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The committee also approved an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, which now reflects that the identity of an accused person, witness or victim under the age 18, may not be revealed.<\/p>\n

The Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill and Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence bills will now go to the National Assembly due to meet on Friday for approval.<\/p>\n

If approved, the bills will be sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for assent. – SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Domestic Violence Amendment Bill has been revised to reflect gender-neutrality. The bill\u2019s gender neutrality amendments were approved during a sitting of Parliament\u2019s Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee on Tuesday. The move will make this South Africa\u2019s second gender-neutral Act after the Cybercrimes Act. In the bill\u2019s amendments, traditional pronouns such as \u201che\u201d, \u201cshe\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-201248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/domestic-violence-amendment-bill-revised-to-reflect-gender-neutrality.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}