A petição é dirigida a: Speaker of the National Assembly

South Africa's femicide rate is of the highest in the world. Women and children are at risk of being murdered and having violence perpetrated against them, mostly by people sworn to protect and nurture them. More than 5 000 women were murdered in 2024, an average of 1 250 every three months. 

Enough has been said about Gender-Based Violence and Femicide! Now is time for action. We demand immediate steps to be taken to prevent this scourge and for our Government to start with an overhaul of local law-enforcement in South Africa.

1. We demand more police stations.
2. We demand better resourced police stations.
3. We demand more and better-trained law-enforcement officers.
4. We demand that evidence collection and processing to be better resourced and the establishment of more, specialised laboratories in.
5. We demand Victim-Friendly rooms at every police station to be utilised for their purpose and not for storage, or lunch breaks as often are the case.
6. We demand that police stations has a general office for certifying documents so that crime victims do not have to share the charge-office space with people visiting the station for certification purposes.
7. We demand that women and girls be afforded the opportunity to link a Panic Button App on their phones, to designated GBV prevention officers at their local police precincts.  
8. We demand that all law-enforcement officers undergo compulsory training in the processing of GVB reporting. Police must adhere to the Victims Rights Charter and allow crime victims to report crimes perpetrated against them and provide information about progress in cases.
9. We demand that any officer, or police station involved in corruption, or mismanagent of case files, be held liable and be made accountable. It must be a crime to misplace a case file, or have a case file disappear from a station. 
10. We demand Government -resourced training in GBV prevention, including self-defence training and crime prevention training in schools.