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A very good morning with the news at Nyanam Kurushanaika. A national inquiry into gender-based violence and femicide has raised concerns over poor data and weak accountability within state institutions. Evidence leader advocate Spezuruzuru says: government departments are struggling to provide reliable information on GBVF cases and convictions. She further highlighted that the Justice Department has attributed difficulties in tracking successful convictions.

To fragment reporting systems and institutional backlogs. Zula also says some provincial units lack dedicated officials. She also said unreliable official stats are making it difficult to determine the true scale of GBVF and the number of successful convictions. A particularly concerning gap relates to court outcomes.

Provided. This creates a very serious accountability problem. The department administers the court system but cannot tell this inquiry how many GBVF survivors ultimately receive justice. They cannot tell us whether matters result in convictions, whether outcomes have improved over time, and whether sexual offences courts are achieving their intended purpose. So without this outcome data, it becomes impossible to evaluate whether the justice system is succeeding or failing the survivors. Let's move to this web professor.