As we reach the end of this year's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign Daron Mann talks to Lesley Ann Foster, Executive Director at Masimanyane Women's Support Centre, about the surge of gender-based violence in South Africa and the Eastern Cape after a spate of violent killings of Eastern Cape women.
8 Organisations Fighting Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence is a scourge facing South African women. A 2016 Stats SA and South African Medical Research Council survey shows that one in five women experienced violence at the hands of a partner. There are numerous cases that go unreported. Here are eight organisations fighting the fight against gender-based violence and aiding women (and their children) who have survived abuse.
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SBCWC in Manenberg, Cape Town caters to women and children who are survivors of abuse. It acts as a multi-agency service delivery model to manage, treat, and prevent violence against women and children, and includes a 24-hour crisis response; a residential shelter and transitional housing for abused women and their children; legal assistance; and job-skills training bringing together a number of organisations both within government structures and the non-governmental spaces.
BMW donated to help fight GBV âgathering dustâ
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Cape Town â One of the cars donated by BMW South Africa in February last year to help combat gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide is gathering dust, with an expired licence.
The DA intends submitting parliamentary questions to Minister of Woman, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to explain why this is the case.
This comes after an oversight inspection by the DA yesterday to the Mzamo Child Guidance and Training Initiative in KwaZulu-Natal, which was one of the recipients of a BMW i3.
On February 6 last year, BMW South Africa donated five BMW i3s to the government, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Cyril Ramaphosa among the dignitaries attending the donation ceremony.
On 6 February 2020, BMW South Africa donated five BMW i3s to the government “to aid the fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in South Africa”. The donation ceremony was attended by an audience of invited guests including high-ranking government officials. President Cyril Ramaphosa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel and BMW Group board members were in attendance.
The day before the launch, the Presidency released a statement saying that the cars would be used “to support community-based care workers in their prevention of gender-based violence and femicide and in victim support” and would be “presented to the South African Business Coalition on Health and Aids (SABCOHA) to manage on behalf of the multisectoral Interim Steering Committee (ISC) on Gender-based Violence and Femicide”. Indeed, at the ceremony on 6 February 2020 the keys to (at least