Eastern Cape Safety MEC speaks out on violent crime.

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 Eastern Cape Safety MEC, Helen Sauls August, has called for joint action to incidents of rape, murder and attacks on women.

She says there's an urgent need for a multi-sectoral response to the scourge.

Sauls-August was commenting after the reason rapes of elderly women, including an attack on a woman more than a hundred years old.

The MEC says everyone in every corner of the street should help to protect women and children and particularly the elderly in the province.