BUDGET: Action Society demands a costed implementation plan for GBVF funding [SOUND]

# Action Society warns that allocations in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement risk being lip service unless government publishes a costed implementation plan related to gender-based violence and femicide. In the budget, minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana committed an additional 5.1-billion-rand to combat GBVF in the country. Action Society’s Juanita du Preez says that while 186-million-rand is allocated for forensic and investigative capacity, there is no explanation of how much will reach specialist police units and forensic laboratories: