Before we become completely consumed by this New Year, here’s a snapshot of NSMSA’s 2025 highlights – it was a year marked by both urgency and impact in the fight against gender‑based violence and femicide (GBVF). In this edition, we reflect on our continued advocacy for shelters that serve as critical gender-based violence (GBV) disruptors, at a time when GBVF...Continue reading
Sindisiwe Msimango, NSMSA Provincial Representative for Mpumalanga, joined the Women’s Shutdown on 21 November, in solidarity with GBV survivors and calling for urgent action and meaningful support for shelters and #SafeHouses across South Africa. Continue reading
Following the 5th World Conference of Women’s Shelters (5WCWS), the National Shelter Movement of South Africa has issued a strong call for greater inclusion and representation of African and Global South voices in international platforms addressing gender-based violence (GBV). Speaking during the Africa Regional Plenary, Head of the NSMSA Executive Dr. Zubeda Dangor reaffirmed the continent’s vital role in the global women’s...Continue reading
The National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA) says that this Women’s Month, it also wants to shine a spotlight on the contemptable ongoing practice by some SAPS officers of encouraging or permitting the withdrawal of gender-based violence (GBV) cases. “This is not a procedural failure – it’s a betrayal of justice,” says the NSMSA. “Pushing survivors to drop charges...Continue reading
The National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA) – an umbrella organisation supporting a network of over 100 gender-based violence (GBV) shelters across the country – expresses deep concern and sorrow over the tragic murder-suicide in Soweto involving a senior police officer, who allegedly took the lives of his intimate partner and her brother, before turning the weapon on himself....
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