GFSA Established
Gun Free South Africa was officially founded with Bishop Peter Storey as Chairperson and Adèle Kirsten as National Coordinator. Our founding patrons included moral giants: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sheena Duncan, Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, Bishop Stanley Mogoba, Sheik Nazeem Mohamed, Sheila Sisulu, and Pastor Ray McCauley.

“Real peace never comes from the barrel of a gun”
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, GFSA founder and patron

Constitutional Victory
Our first major success: lobbying the Constitutional Assembly to ensure South Africa’s Constitution recognises civilian gun ownership as a privilege under the law and not as a fundamental right.