Advocacy group slams SA’s GBV laws as ‘good only on paper’ – SABC News
Advocacy group, Women For Change has criticised South Africa’s legislation on gender-based violence and femicide saying it’s good only on paper.
South Africans across social media have turned their profile pictures purple in solidarity with a nationwide shutdown against GBVF set to take place on the 21st of this month.
The demonstrations aim to highlight the social and economic impact of women’s absence by protesters refraining from all forms of paid and unpaid labour for a day.
The group’s Michael Benevolent-Masina says that women and children, as well as members of the LGBTQI community are killed and slain every single day in South Africa and people who are meant to be protecting them are the ones who seems not to care.
On Friday, 21 November 2025, South African women will silence the nation.
We call on all women and members of the LGBTQI+ community across South Africa to refrain from all paid and unpaid work in workplaces, universities, homes, and communities to demonstrate the economic and… pic.twitter.com/9e0F8tXTFE
— Women For Change (@womenforchange5) October 29, 2025
Department of Women, Youth and Persons with disabilities has also urged the South Africans to fight against Gender based Violence.
Government Message of the Day | 10 November 2025
Every South African has a role to play in ending Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.
📞 Report GBVF: 08600 10111 | For support: 0800 428 428#StopGBV #EndGBVF pic.twitter.com/zxfeqfvaBF
— Dept of Women, Youth & Persons with Disabilities (@DWYPD_ZA) November 10, 2025