Activism and Empowerment

Working with Communities

GFSA works with community members in Gauteng and the Western Cape to reduce gun violence and help build safer communities.

Activism and EmpowermentClaire Taylor2022-11-30T13:32:28+02:00

Gun Free Zones

Gun Free Zone are one of the most effective and powerful ways to build safer communities. Find out how you can make your space a Gun Free Zone, free from the fear of gun violence

Public education

We help raise awareness of the risks of guns and how you can use the law to save a life from gun violence.

Strong gun law

We help raise the voices of the unarmed majority.

Follow our youth team on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.

Safety Toolkit

A guide to creating safer communities.

Designed for young South Africans, our Safety Toolkit offers a set of modules about guns in South Africa and offers ways in which community members can help prevent and reduce gun violence.

View the GFSA Safety Toolkit

Resources

Audio Storytelling

Fact sheets and guides developed with the Children’s Radio Foundation.

Schools Resources

Guides and resources for educators from our Firearm Free Zone schools project.

Aim for Change

Workshop for youth to reflect on issues such as gun violence, masculine identities and peer pressure.

Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) is a South African NGO committed to reducing gun violence through public policy advocacy, education, awareness and community mobilisation.

Get in Touch

Gun Free South Africa, P.O. Box 3048, Killarney, 2193, Johannesburg, South Africa

+27 71 876 1135

info@gfsa.org.za

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Women For Change @womenforchange5 ·

25 Oct

Unako Gcobo, 17 was shot dead by unknown men on her own birthday, 22 October 2022 in Ginsberg, King William's Town.

No one has been arrested yet. The family are looking for anyone who has information - please contact: 083 698 2959

Fly high, Sister. #womenforchange #sayhername

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Gun Free SA @gunfreesa ·

25 Oct

There is no evidence anywhere in the world that having a gun for self defence make people safer. In fact, the vast majority of illegal guns are stolen from armed civilians in SA.
As the world talks disarmament at the start of UN Disarmament week, South Africans are doing the same

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