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1410, 2025

Keep children safe from guns

14 October 2025|Resources, Take Action, Youth Page|

An 11-year-old boy shot and killed a farm worker while hunting guinea fowl with his father’s gun; an 8-year-old boy shot and killed his 7-year-old cousin while playing with his father’s licensed gun; a 5-year-old boy was shot and killed by his minor brother who was playing with a gun while seated in a car.

Children and guns are a lethal […]

404, 2024

PROPOSAL: World’s first Bulletproof Park in Mitchells Plain

4 April 2024|Media Releases, Youth Page|

In April 2024 GFSA put forward a proposal to develop the world’s first Bulletproof Park in Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats as one way to protect children from being shot and injured or killed in crossfire.

Crafted by architects, community stakeholders and safety experts, the planned park would be entirely enveloped in bulletproof glass, with secure entrances and panic buttons, […]

3011, 2022

Public education

30 November 2022|Youth Page|

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

3011, 2022

Gun Free Zones

30 November 2022|Youth Page|

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