Women in Need calls for urgent, measurable and adequately resourced action against GBVF [SOUND]

# Women in Need calls on president Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure the classification of gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster leads to urgent, measurable and adequately resourced action. This follows the discovery of nine women’s bodies in Ekurhuleni. The organisation’s spokesperson, Dorothy Mabelebele, says the Human Sciences Research Council’s GBVF prevalence study found over 33-percent of South African women have experienced physical violence, and about 9.8-percent have experienced sexual violence: