Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Assessment
Responsible: Department of Police
Stakeholder Landscape
Who backs this reform, who needs convincing, and which interests or red lines shape political feasibility.
Backers
25
3 stakeholders
Negotiation weight
9
1 conditional actors
Opposition weight
0
0 opposing actors
Review coverage
0/4
All mapped stance notes are still draft
Provenance warning
Every mapped stakeholder stance for this idea is still draft. The coalition score is directional only until at least the high-influence actors are reviewed.
Coalition Read
Anchor: Presidency / Operation Vulindlela. Highest-leverage swing actor: National Treasury.
Political Tractability
No reviewed signals · 0% of mapped influence has been reviewed.
Anti-crime and anti-extortion measures are central to the investment climate agenda — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Cross-cutting structural reform coordination across energy, logistics, water, digital infrastructure, and visa reform. Operation Vulindlela, establish…
Concern: Implementation bottlenecks within line departments; regulatory capture of NERSA and ICASA; SOE institutional inertia; ensuring quick wins translate in…
Engagement path: Already fully engaged. Seeks line department buy-in, NEDLAC social compact legitimacy, and international DFI financing alignment on key reform milesto…
Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Cross-sector structural reform across energy security, logistics efficiency, regulatory certainty, labour market flexibility, and digital infrastructu…
Concern: Slow implementation pace relative to policy announcements; inconsistency between reform rhetoric and regulatory decisions (e.g. NERSA tariff approvals…
Engagement path: Already actively engaged. Seeks implementation accountability mechanisms with published milestones, predictable regulatory timelines, and NEDLAC outco…
Organised crime and extortion directly threaten business operations and infrastructure projects — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: CEO-level advocacy for structural reform across energy, logistics, digital infrastructure, and investment climate. Runs the CEO Initiative on Inclusiv…
Concern: Reform announcements without implementation accountability; regulatory decisions that contradict stated reform intentions (NERSA tariff rulings incons…
Engagement path: Already fully engaged. Needs credible implementation accountability from government, reform consistency across regulatory bodies, and NEDLAC outcomes…
Supports in principle but concerned about fiscal cost of SAPS expansion — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Fiscal consolidation with public debt stabilising below 75% of GDP; structural reforms that improve revenue without expanding contingent liabilities;…
Concern: Unfunded mandates in energy transition (JETP co-financing); Eskom's R400bn+ debt and how restructuring socialises costs; reform proposals that create…
Engagement path: Reforms must be fiscally neutral or revenue-positive over the MTEF window; SOE restructuring must demonstrably reduce contingent liabilities; credible…
Description
South Africa has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence globally, with femicide rates five times the global average. The National Strategic Plan on GBVF (2020-2030) established targets including expanded Thuthuzela Care Centres, dedicated FCS units, and the National Register for Sex Offenders. The committee has examined implementation progress, noting police station-level compliance gaps with the Domestic Violence Act. The June 2025 hearings focused on systemic failures in victim support and the low conviction rates for sexual offences.
Evidence & Research
Research corpus →- How to prevent violence in South Africa
ISS · Jul 2025
The paper directly addresses violence prevention in South Africa, analysing evidence-based interventions and returns on investment in violence prevention—the core mechanism and justification for the gender-based violence prevention strategy.
- Debate about SA’s falling murder levels masks a deeper crisis
ISS
The paper directly addresses family violence prevention as a mechanism for reducing murders in South Africa, which is substantively relevant to the policy idea's focus on gender-based violence prevention and response strategy.
Links proposed by lexical matching and screened by a calibrated research judge. Follow the paper for the full argument and its caveats.
How to cite
Wilse-Samson, L. (2026). Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy. SA Policy Space. Retrieved 24 August 2026, from https://sa-policy-space.vercel.app/ideas/gender-based-violence-prevention-and-response-strategy?snapshot=2026-08-24
Status History
tracked since Mar 2026- Recorded as Under review when status tracking began — held since at least Mar 2026.Mar 2026
Data as of 2026-08-24 · latest PMG meeting 2026-08-21