Women for Change says declaring GBV a national disaster is long overdue [SOUND]

# Civil society, led by Women for Change, demands that president Cyril Ramaphosa must declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster. According to Statistics South Africa over 50-percent of assaults against women are committed by someone they know, with intimate partners or spouses accounting for at least 15-percent of these attacks. Women for Change’s Lesego Mahlangu says civil society has to stop calling for action and rather start taking action: