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.

moo ho nang le mehato e sisintsweng ya ntjhafatso ya molao, ha motho a na le tsebo, tumelo e sa belaetseng kapa kgwao ya hore ketso ya tshebediso ya dikgoka malapeng e entswe kgahlanong le ngwana, motho ya phelang ka bohole kapa ho leqheku, mme a hloleha ho e tlaleha ho mosebelletsi wa setjhaba kapa tshebeletsong ya sepolesa sa afrika borwa (saps) motho eo a ka fuwa kotlo kapa a kwallwa.
