# Minister of Social Development, Dina Pule, has welcomed the commitments made by the minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, relating to gender-based violence and femicide and strengthening social protection. Government will spend 3.8-billion-rand to recruit over three-thousand-500 social workers to strengthen the fight against GBVF. Social grants will continue to be funded. Pule says the funding will strengthen the department’s ability to provide timely interventions, support survivors and ensure that women and children have access to the care and protection they deserve.
Minister Pule welcomes government’s commitments to strengthen the fight against GBVF