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 […]
BRIEFING 1 of 2024: Record-keeping is a crime fighting tool
As gun crime in SA reaches levels not seen since the nineties, some police records show a significant spike – of between 130% and 180% – in the number of state guns since 2016.
- If accurate, what measures have been put in place to prevent loss, theft and misuse of state guns which have almost trebled in number in the […]
STATEMENT: Welcome think-tank call for gun control
An Institute for Security Studies report Strengthening the SAPS for a safer South Africa: Recommendations for police reform calls on SA’s new government to prioritise gun control to reduce violent crime nationally. According to Gareth Newham, Head of the ISS’ Justice and Violence Prevention Programme, “we have to get on top of our murder rate” which is […]
ELECTIONS 24: Use your vote to stop gun violence
Gun violence has reached levels last seen in the late 1990’s. Now – as then – 34 people are shot dead every day.
• Where does your party stand on gun control? • Does your party have a plan to combat the rising levels of gun violence in SA? • Does your party believe in arming citizens as a form of […]
NEWSLETTER: May 2024 – Bulletproof Park
Read GFSA’s May 2024 newsletter, which profiles two of our big focus points of the year so far: A Bulletproof Park to protect children from crossfire and a campaign to Remove the Trigger from domestic violence.
To find out more, download our May 2024 newsletter
