ABOUT
This is a gathering of Deborahs, women in the legal field, who contend for the faith and stand for righteousness and justice in line with Psalms 97:2
"Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne"
Pearl Kupe
Founder & international president
Dr Pearl Kupe is an attorney, Social dialogue & Transformational leadership expert, Executive Coach and International consultant to various governments, International organizations and world leaders. She is a former Corporate executive for Transnet, the largest transport & logistics company in Africa. She is also a former UN Social Dialogue Specialist with the ILO, International Labour Organization who worked to establish peace and set up dispute resolution institutions in the SADC region. Her current responsibilities amongst others: Senior Fellow at GLIPP, the Geneva
Institute of Leadership and Public Policy and advisor to many international organisations.
She is currently the International President of Global Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, a global network that networks women entrepreneurs from all over the world. She sits on many international Boards, including the Acts Higher Education International Council (India) and the African Women Leaders Forum Honorary Executive Committee with Rev. Jesse Jackson as Chair of the committee. She also sits as Board Member of Made In Africa International Committee. She is also the Founding International President of The Deborahs 972, a group of Christian women lawyers who take a stand for righteousness and justice and represent the vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Dr. Kupe has the honour of being a recipient of many international & continental awards including the African Woman Living legacy award (Business & Enterprise), Pioneering SADC Women award & SA Influential Women 2019 & SA Influential Woman 2022. She also received the award
Dr. Kupe is a firm believer in community development, transformation and social action. She is a Kingdom activist who uses her professional training to further the Kingdom agenda and mandate.
Kgothatso Masupye
national chairperson
Advocate Kgothatso Masupye is a business and legal consultant, an admitted legal practitioner practising as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, with legal experience obtained from various law firms prior to being called to the bar. Simultaneously studied towards her Bachelor’s of Law degree (LLB) and Diploma in businesses management and administration and thereafter obtained various certificates including local government and municipal administration law.
Leandra cairncross
National deputy chairperson
Leandra Cairncross is the Founder and Director of Chamcham Corporation Pty Ltd, a Lifting Equipment Training Provider. She has an N4 and N5 Certificate in Public Management and an LLB, Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her values are anchored in Yeshua in that she strives to do everything according to the word of God. She enjoys studying Biblical teachings that she applies daily.
Gender based violence
awareness
types of
Gender
based
violence
factors that cause
Gender based violence
Gender-based violence is largely a socioeconomic consequence
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Alcohol and substance abuse are the key drivers of gender-based violence
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Obsessive possessiveness or jealousy contributes to gender-based violence
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People who grow up in a violent family are more likely to commit gender-based violence
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Certain types of personality disorders or mental illnesses can contribute to gender-based violence
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Domestic violence
awareness
types of
Domestic
violence
Domestic Violence Process Map
Step 1
Report abuse to your local police station. Victims may also approach the court, community leaders, prosecutor, social workers and non-governmental organisations working in their area. The police officer ought to explain the procedure. Complainant has a choice to lodge either a criminal case, application for a Protection Order or both. If necessary, the police will take the complainant for medical assessment.The assessment will be detailed in a form and could be used as evidence. After assessment, the police officer refers the complainant to the local Magistrate’s Court to apply for a Protection Order.
Step 2
The Clerk of the Court assists the complainant to complete an affidavit detailing the nature of the abuse.The Clerk of the Court will open a file and record it.Complainant must always keep the file number issued by the Clerk of the Court safe.
Step 3
The Magistrate will look at the contents of the application and ascertain the correctness of the information in the presence of the complainant.
After careful consideration, the Magistrate will issue an Interim Protection Order and a return date for a hearing. A warrant of arrest, which can only be effected if the respondent violates the conditions of the Interim Protection Order will be authorised by the Magistrate and given to the Applicant by the Clerk of the Court.
Step 4
The Interim Protection Order must be served on the respondent, either by the SAPA, sheriff or clerk of the court to the respondent which will also indicate the return date.
Step 5
The Interim Protection Order must be served on the respondent, either by the SAPA, sheriff or clerk of the court to the respondent which will also indicate the return date.
Step 6
Should Respondent violate the Protection order: Applicant must take the warrant of arrest and report the contravention at the police station. Thereafter the respondent will be arrested and be charged for violation of a Protection Order and prosecuted in the Criminal Court.
IF THE RESPONDENT IS FOUND GUILTY HE/SHE CAN BE SENTENCED TO A FINE/ IMPRISONMENT OR BOTH.
legalisation of prostitution
Prostitution, brothel keeping and living off the proceeds is illegal in terms of the Sexual offences Act 32 of 2007, section 11 of that Act also criminalises the purchasing of sex.
BUT
There are organisations that are pro-legalizing prostitution.
They want prostitution to be legal. These organisations fail to understand that it is not the legal status of prostitution that harms the women, but the prostitution itself. Decriminalizing prostitution will be a gift to pimps, traffickers and crime syndicates that prey on women.
Who is a prostitute?
Groomed – International studies show that between 65% and 90% of prostituted women were sexually abused by relatives or acquaintances as girls, which explain the highest vulnerability of youth to the sex industry.Many children, mainly girls, who are sexually exploited, are sold into prostitution at an early age by the men who abuse them. Recent international studies state that, the median age for the entrance of girls into prostitution is 14 years.
Young girls and women are vulnerable to pimps who befriend them and shower them with attention and affection.
Forced – Research shows that most women in prostitution have been to some extent forced into prostitution. According to a study in 2000 by the Dutch Institute of Social Sexological Research, 79% of women in prostitution gave an indication that they were in prostitution due to some degree of force. The prostitution industry is an industry based on violence, domination and inequality.
Addicted – The impact of prostitution is far more detrimental than we can see, because they are entrenched in mentalities. Most prostitutes turn to drugs and/or alcohol to enable them to numb their thoughts, or drug addicts turn to prostitution to sustain their habit. Prostitution and illicit drug use and abuse go hand in hand.
Exposed to serious health risk – Prostitution exposes the women involved therein to a vast amount of health risks. These include, amongst others, physical injuries and infections as a result of assault, STDs (HIV/Aids), unwanted pregnancy and miscarriage, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and infertility.
These not only cause severe harm to women and girls involved in prostitution, but are the result of gross violations of their rights to integrity and dignity.
Suffer Psychological Trauma – Denial and dissociation are deeply embedded survival strategies for women in prostitution. It is for the most part, too painful for women themselves to acknowledge the abuse and degradation involved, too painful to acknowledge the actual reality. These women have to try to separate their “real selves” from the selves involved in prostitution, by being distant, disengagement, dissociation and disembodiment.
Dying to leave – In a study of 475 people in prostitution from five countries, 73% reported that they have been physically assaulted, 62% raped, 92% stated that they would leave prostitution immediately if they could.
The reality is that no woman wants to have sex with 5,10,15,20 or more men in a day, every day.
Impact of Prostitution on children
Prostitution generally results in dysfunctional parenting , which leads to delinquent behaviour from a child and the child possibly engaging in prostitution as well.
Tammy (a pseudonym) a 21 year old lady was introduced to prostitution by her mother. Tammy has 2 children, she had her first child, her son at the age of 14, he stays with Tammy’s mother. Tammy’s 8 year old son was quiet and never showed emotions, he needed a special school as he could not speak nor hold on to a crayon.
The boy was eventually enrolled to a school, but had a tendency of peeping under the girls’ dresses and going inside the girls’ rest rooms.
It turns out that the boy was made to lay under the bed while his grandmother (Tammy’s mother) was busy with clients. The little boy was also molested by one of his grandmother’s clients.
Section 28 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 states that every child has the right :
(d) to be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse and degradation;
(e) to be protected from exploitive labour practices;
(f) not to be required or permitted to perform work or provide services that :
- are inappropriate for a person of that child’s age;
- place at risk the child’s well – being, education, physical or mental health or spiritual, moral or social development.
Subsection 2 further states that:
A child’s best interest is of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child.
Section 29 provides for the right to education.
Therefore, neglect by parents/ lack of proper care and lack of education contributes in the need for children to engage in “survival sex” / the exchange of sex for food, money, drugs or protection.
The governments of Iceland, Germany and Norway, as well as local authorities in cities in the Netherlands (notably Amsterdam), have conceded that the positive goals intended
by the legislation have not been achieved.
The legislation of prostitution has had an unfavourable impact in the zones, cities and states that have decriminalised, legalised or attempted to regulate prostitution.
Sweden has reversed the legislation-trafficking cases reduced from 15 000-17 000 cases to between 200-400 cases annually.
Beneficiary of sex industry
The sex industry is a globalised industry. When prostitution is legalised, the state and a host of other parties, including ordinary investors, become embroiled in pimping.
The party that stands to gain the most is the state, which benefits directly or indirectly from brothel license fees, taxation and sex tourism.
State-sanctioned prostitution is big business – a major economic activity that is legitimised not only by government, but also by financial institutions, the media and the health professions.
Notwithstanding the moral issues of the state profiting from gender-based violence, the insidious side-effect of the state becoming a beneficiary lies in the fact that policing capacity
decrease as the underlying crime issues are no longer considered to be a priority.
You can be a platform of Gods expression and voice your objection to any attempt to legalise prostitution by writing and sending research papers and submissions to: law@thedeborahs972.org
This is our opportunity to stand up and be counted as Kingdom citizens who operate within the original definition of the word "ekklessia"- a people/assembly/gathering of people who are
LAWMAKERS and CULTURE MAKERS
KE NAKO, IT’S TIME.
Reversal of legalised prostitution
Youth has become a strong commercial value for the sex industry. The sex industry does not discriminate on age, should prostitution be legalised, pimping and prostitution will flourish.
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