LIVE: President Ramaphosa Addressing Joint Special Sitting Of Two Houses Of Parliament On GBV & Femicide

@PresidencyZA President #Ramaphosa: To enhance the safety of women we will, as a matter of urgency, make the necessary amendments to our laws and policies to ensure that perpetrators of gender-based violence are brought to book.
#EnoughIsEnough

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

#GBV #EnoughIsEnough @Ramaphosa: As we have done with our response to HIV and AIDS, we should establish appropriate structures in the offices of Premiers and Mayors to work with social partners to drive and coordinate our efforts to end GBV

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

#Ramaphosa Cabinet this morning resolved to direct R1.1 billion in additional funding in this financial year to the comprehensive response to GBV. It's government's intention that the funds appropriated for this programme will be raised from within the current budget allocation.

— ANC Parliament (@ANCParliament) September 18, 2019

#Ramaphosa Every department that will be affected by this will be asked to mainstream the funding for fighting GBV so that it is not the task of one department alone. #RamaphosaOnGBV

— ANC Parliament (@ANCParliament) September 18, 2019

#GBV #EnoughIsEnough @Ramaphosa 'We will undertake a mass mobilization programme to train and deploy prevention activists to all our 278 municipalities. They will engage in household visits and community interventions, focus on changing harmful social norms.

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

#GBV #EnoughIsEnough Ramaphosa: Government has launched many, many interventions over the past decade. They have been well-intentioned, but they have not delivered the outcomes we have hoped for.

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

#GBV #EnoughIsEnough @CyrilRamaphosa: By tackling the unequal power dynamics we can reduce the vulnerability of women to abuse. Gov. will continue to prioritise women when it comes to unemployment, training and opportunities #EnoughIsEnough #GBV

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

#EnoughIsEnough President @CyrilRamaphosa: This emergency action plan will be driven by an Interim Steering Committee located in the Presidency and co-chaired by government and civil society organisations. #GBV

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

President #Ramaphosa: The perpetrators of these crimes are the products of a brutalised society, a society still suffering the effects of centuries of dehumanisation.
 
We must break this cycle.

— Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 (@PresidencyZA) September 18, 2019

#GBV #EnoughIsEnough @Ramaphosa: We will therefore be directing resources to improve the functioning of Sexual Offences Courts, Thuthuzela Care Centres, and the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Investigation Units of the SAPS.

— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics8) September 18, 2019

President @CyrilRamaphosa: We must remove the cancer of #GBV and xenophobia… working together we can turn this moment of crisis to opportunity to renew ourselves and return to the respect of rule of law and human rights #EnoughIsEnough

— @SAgovnews (@SAgovnews) September 18, 2019