South Africa Declared GBVF a National Disaster. So Why Are Women Still Being Killed?

South Africa has spent years acknowledging that women are not safe. There have been presidential summits, national strategies, awareness campaigns, marches, task teams and, since November 2025, an official classification of gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster. Yet on Tuesday morning, another woman's body was found dumped beside a road in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni.

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