Gbvf Response Fund

South Africa faces two intersecting public health crises, experts warn

The Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Gender Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund (the Fund), Ms. Zanele Ngwepe, is raising the alarm with a forewarning that South…

GBVF

7 min read

Advocate Shamila Batohi addresses the Private Sector Symposium against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. File photo

ILO

25 SEP 2024

PSC launched to combat workplace GBVH

The Private Sector Coalition brings SA businesses together to fight the scourge of gender-based violence and harassment

Derek Davey

15 min read

The lived reality for women in South Africa is they get turned away at our police stations. They are told that domestic violence is a family matter. They are sent from one office to another. If they do actually get someone willing to open their case, the case files disappear into delay

365 DAY NATIONAL ACTION PLAN TO END GENDER VIOLENCE

29 NOV 2022

Good, bad & ugly: How SA’s fight against GBV & femicide is going

Almost 1 000 women were killed by their intimate partners over the past 12 years, but the government achieved just one in five of its targets to fight gender-based violence and…

Nicole Ludolph

7 min read

The women of Mfolozi and eXolobeni do not feel safe approaching law enforcement as their aggressors will be treated with impunity, exposing them to further harassment, and driving more potential women activists into the shadows

AMADIBA CRISIS COMMITTEE

17 MAR 2021

Women environmental activists often pay the ultimate price

The violent murder of Mam’ Ntshangase is not the first of its kind and will most certainly not be the last

Thandile Chinyavanhu

5 min read