in perhaps the most groundbreaking proposed amendment to the act, if someone has knowledge, reasonable belief or suspicion that an act of domestic violence has been committed against a child, a person with disability or an older person and fails to report it to a social worker or police officer they can be fined and even imprisoned.

mhlawumbe kusichibelo lesiphakanyisiwe lesiyincophamlandvo kulomtsetfo, uma ngabe kunemuntfu lonelwati, kukholelwa lokwenele noma tinsolo tekutsi kukhona sento sebudlova basekhaya lesentiwe kumntfwana, umuntfu lonekukhubateka noma umuntfu lomdzala futsi ehluleke kubikela sonhlalakahle noma liphoyisa bangahlawuliswa noma baboshwe.
