SA spends more on its VIPs than on women and children
” Robyn Wolfson Vorster, child protection expert and founding director of For The Voiceless, said: “Although violence against women and children was declared a national disaster in November 2025, the government’s budgetary response indicates that it is yet to put its money where its mouth is.
The government has been criticised for allocating more money to VIP protection than to specialised policing aimed at combating gender-based violence (GBV) and crimes against women and children.
Ian Cameron, chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on police, said the specialised Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) policing environment receives about R1.
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