Build sustainable partnerships for change
GFSA is committed to working in partnership to create a safer South Africa. To help us – and you – build and sustain collaborations for meaningful change, our youth team developed a Partner Toolkit with support from the DG Murray Trust.
If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.
RESEARCH: Guns leading weapon used to murder women in 2020/21
New research into femicide – the murder of women – published by the Medical Research Council shows that:
Women are most at risk of being killed by a current or ex intimate partner: 60% of women murdered in 2020/21 were intimate-partner femicides.
Gunshots were the leading weapon used to murder women in 2020/21; 2 to 3 women were shot dead every […]
Gun Free Valentines: Guns don’t belong in relationships
Women in South Africa are more likely to be killed by their husband or boyfriend than by a stranger, with legal firearms in the home posing a specific risk.
• Fact: Every 8 hours a woman is killed by an intimate partner in SA
• Fact: A woman is more likely to be murdered by her husband or boyfriend than by a […]
What to Prepare If You’re Selling Your Business
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Remove a gun from domestic violence
Any woman who lives in fear of a gun in her home can ask the magistrates court or the police to remove the gun immediately.
