House Chair, our hearts bleed with pain on the passing of a six-year-old girl, Boitumelo who was raped and died from injuries at a
Polokwane hospital. We also wish to send condolences to the family.
As the EFF, we have said it that we cannot continue to treat the rape of children as rape and not attempted murder. Any one who rapes a child has the intention to kill that child. There is no other intention besides an intention to kill.
As society, we should see it as murder and attempted murder. Perpetrators, who rape children, should be charged with murder. You do not rape a child, you attempt to murder a child or you successfully murder a child like it was the case with baby Boitumelo. The murdering of our children is happening as if there is no policing or our courts are closed. We must not get tired of showing our anger, frustration and activism against murdering of children. [Applause.]