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.

uma mhlawumbe ukuchitshiyelwa okuqinile okwethuliwe komthetho, uma umuntu othile enolwazi,ekholelwa noma enezinsolo zokuthi isenzo sodlame lwasekhaya lwenzekile emntwaneni, kumuntu ophila nokukhubazeka noma kumuntu omdala futhi ahluleke ukubika kusonhlalakahle noma ephoyiseni angahlawuliswa noma aboshwe.
