Shutdown for GBV to be declared national disaster

There is an intense outcry against gender-based violence (GBV) as NGO Women For Change's call for a national shutdown on 21 November to demand that GBV be declared a national disaster gains momentum.

- Marizka Coetzer

Staff from the Riau Natural Resources Conservation Centre install a GPS collar on a tranquillised elephant that has been blindfolded in the Tesso Tenggara conservation area in Riau in Sumatra. Picture: AFP JUMBO JOB

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Thousands of people are making their profile pictures purple in support of GBV awareness ahead of the G20.

The NGO called on all women and members of the LGBTQI+ community across South Africa to refrain from all paid and unpaid work in workplaces, universities and homes, to spend no money to demonstrate the economic and social impact of their absence and to wear black on 21 November.