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Category: In the News
The Global Network of Women’s Shelters event
The Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS) CSW 66 parallel event hosted on the 14th March 2022, with one of NSMSA’s Executive Director’s Joy Lange.
Loss of a sister in the struggle against Violence Against Women
It is with a very heavy and sore heart that the National Shelter Movement of South Africa, mourns the passing of a long-standing Board Member Ms Fazila Gany after her long battle against COVID-19, on Wednesday the 27th of January 2021. As with her activism she fought hard too in this battle, sadly she didn’t make it this time round....Continue reading
National Shelter Movement’s helpline starts taking calls – dedicated to those seeking help from domestic and intimate partner violence
From Wednesday 2 December, women and other victims of domestic violence in South Africa are able to contact the National Shelter Movement of South Africa’s (NSMSA) 24-hour toll-free Shelter Helpline. This is the first national helpline exclusively dedicated to helping victims of domestic abuse access shelter services in each of the nine provinces, while also assisting with a variety of...Continue reading
Press Release – The national shelter movement calls for the president to address funding of women’s abuse shelters
PRESS RELEASE 20 AUGUST 2020 THE NATIONAL SHELTER MOVEMENT CALLS FOR THE PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS FUNDING OF WOMEN’S ABUSE SHELTERS
Letter to president urging immediate intervention on funding of women’s shelters
Attention: President Cyril Ramaphosa Minister for Women Minister of Social Development 20 August 2020 RE: NATIONAL SHELTER MOVEMENT CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT TO INTERVENE AND URGENTLY ADDRESS MURDEROUS FUNDING ISSUES WITH WOMEN’S SHELTERS
Press Release: GBV Victims & Shelters, COVID-19 Lockdown
While South Africans are stockpiling and preparing for a 21-day countrywide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, for some, isolating at home presents additional risks, on top of avoiding possible CoVid-19 infection. According to the National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSM) one of its main concerns is the potential for increased violence against women and children, who...Continue reading
Women’s shelters struggle for funding
South Africa has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence, but its shelters are battling to stay afloat – and government departments have been slow to explain why, writes New Frame journalist, Zandile Bangani.Continue reading
Shelters provide critical services for survivors of gender-based violence
Women activists who have been conducting countrywide protests since the peak in femicide and violence against women in September have released an appeal to the government to use a portion of the additional funding set aside by President Cyril Ramaphosa to increase and strengthen shelters for abused women and children, writes Moira Levy.Continue reading
Shelters — a Last Resort for Abused Women Who Have Nowhere Else to Turn
As Women’s Month draws to a close, about 130 vulnerable women living in shelters gathered on Thursday for a luncheon hosted by the Western Cape Women’s Shelter Network. Joy Lange, executive member of HBF's project partner, National Shelter Movement of SA, spoke to the Daily Maverick about the purpose of the event and some of the challenges facing shelters. Continue reading