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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
COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY

No council yet for gender-based violence — independent report details why

The interim steering committee tasked with setting up a gender-based violence and femicide structure has not been convened for almost two years

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
Parliament is no closer to appointing a board for the National Youth Development Agency after nearly two years.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Still no board for NYDA, no word on gender violence fund

Parliament is no closer to appointing a board for the National Youth Development Agency after nearly two years

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
​A gender violence robot
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

State, private sector launch gender-based violence fund

Funded by the private sector, the government will be able to ‘scale up’ initiatives against this second pandemic

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read