Tag: 16 Days of Activism

Administrative Failures are Failing Survivors

NEWS | NSMSA: “Administrative Failures are Failing Survivors”

9 December 2024: The National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA) deplores the systemic failures exposed in the Public Protector’s latest report on gender-based violence (GBV). The findings paint a harrowing picture of survivors left stranded by an ineffective justice system, placing immense strain on the country’s shelters. For the NSMSA the report is both a wake-up call and a...Continue reading

Too many gaps in SA's GBVF response

NEWS | NSMSA: Exposing Gaps in SA’s Response to GBV and Femicide – Unsolved Crimes, Underfunded Shelters

27 November 2024: “As South Africa marks the global 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, those of us working in shelters are regularly confronted by harrowing stories of survivors who have endured violence at the hands of intimate partners,” says the National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA). “In a country where three women are...