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Mark. The circumstances surrounding the incident are unknown at this stage. The chairperson of the Joint National Inquiry on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide, Tokum Kwanazi Kaluva, has raised concerns over systemic failures in the country's justice system. The five-day public hearings concluded with the inquiry, reflecting on the alarming frequency of withdrawn gender-based violence cases and the secondary victimization.

Experienced by survivors. The inquiry convened jointly by three Chapter 9 institutions examined how the criminal justice system responds to GBVF. Mkwanazi Kaluva highlighted the critical failure points where serious criminal cases collapse before reaching trial. She has called on the Department of Justice to probe unexplained decisions to withdraw cases, the poor handling of forensic evidence.

And lost dockets. Do a study about withdrawals because I'm sure that bothers you as much as it bothers us, if not more, than us. Just to know for a fact why cases get withdrawn. The police are saying, after doing a lot of work, cases get withdrawn. I'm sure you can say the same thing that just when you think, oh, we're ready, the case is suddenly.

Withdrawn that we don't just walk away from those things, that we do a more comprehensive study and we look critically at that. And finally, Interpol South Africa has arrested a 40-year-old Turkish national in KwaZulu-Natal. The man had been wanted in Turkey over a series of gender-based violence-related cases. Police spokesperson Colonel Amanda van Veeg says the man.