# President Cyril Ramaphosa says much work remains to be done, particularly in addressing gender-based violence and femicide, which government has classified as a national disaster. The United Nations Women puts the rate at which South African women are killed at five times the global average. He led the commemorating of the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria yesterday. Ramaphosa has called on men and boys to step forward and be part of the solution, saying GBVF is not a women’s problem:
Ramaphosa calls on men and boys to step forward and be part of the solution to GBVF [SOUND]
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