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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

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

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

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