ANC Women’s League calls for immediate funding for implementation of GBVF declaration [SOUND]

# The ANC Women’s League has called for discretionary funding to be made available for the implementation of the declaration of gender-based violence and femicide as a disaster.  President Cyril Ramaphosa classified GBVF as a national disaster last year. He has also appointed members to the new National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. ANCWL acting president Nokuthula Nqaba says government must also make funding available for survivor support services, prevention programmes and improved oversight: