Government shows how much it cares about GBV by appointing council two years later
It must be quite an awkward thing to tell the families of late victims and survivors themselves that your answer to their plight was a WhatsApp group that you conceptualised six years ago, put on paper five years ago, confirmed and set up two years ago and then lamented the absence of any effect by declaring GBV a national emergency eight months ago… oh and then only now, adding people to the group.
You’d think that if you declared gender-based violence a national disaster on the basis that, among other things, over 10 000 women are being killed a year by an intimate partner, it wouldn’t take so long to put some people in the dormant WhatsApp group that was created to deal with it.
So as condescending as it may be, until shown otherwise, the National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide is no better than a WhatsApp group.
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