The Director General of the Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities has called for the fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to be focused at the community level.
Joyce Maluleke says that all leaders of society, including church and traditional leadership, must work to resocialise communities in order to prevent GBV.
Part of the challenge is penetrating some of these homes where these crimes are perpetuated so one of the things we need to do in terms of this concept means is that we need to start rolling out evidence-based programmes. We need to actually scale them. And some of these programmes include parenting programmes and they are driven by the Department of Social Development so we cant deal with this scourge if we dont drive that leadership in families.
GBV and Femicide
South Africas violent history has been identified as one of the contributing factors to the high numbers of GBV and Femicide in the country.
