Crime in SA | Call to end gender-based violence

JOHANNESBURG - Church shouldn't be a hiding place for wrongdoers.

That's according to Reverend Chris Mathebula of Hope Restoration Ministries.

He says religious leaders should take up the fight against gender-based violence and crime.

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He was speaking to Prof JJ Tabane on Power to Truth.

'Sometimes the law must take it course, if somebody is a criminal take that person to prison," he said.

"And those who are still raping and doing their crazy stuff they belong to prison. They are criminals, that's where they belong."