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Masimbulele Buso, MD of the foundation, says the council was to have been set up in 2020 but this had not materialised. Buso said the foundation was given a deadline of December 2021.
Despite initial promises that a national council would be set up by December to deal with gender-based violence (GBV), women’s rights groups say the government is still a long way off from fulfilling its promise. The National Strategic Plan (NSP) to stop gender-based violence, launched in March 2020 by President Cyril Ramaphosa, makes provision for the establishment of a National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. The council would ensure implementation of the plan, and was supposed to be formed within six months.