Chapter 9 bodies want submissions on the justice system’s GBVF response by Friday. ISS puts intimate-partner femicide at five times the global rate — and conviction odds under one in five.
Written submissions to the joint Chapter 9 inquiry into the criminal justice response to GBVF close on Friday, 11 September — to CGE, SAHRC, and the CRL Rights Commission. The Citizen had the extension and the brief: reporting desks, protection orders, Thuthuzela Care Centres, docket management, bail, and the hand-off between SAPS, NPA, and health services.
The research on the idea page is not waiting for the inquiry. The ISS Violence Prevention Forum brief (July 2025) puts South Africa’s intimate-partner femicide rate at five times the global average: about 2,409 women murdered in 2020/21 (~7 a day), an intimate partner or family member in 71% of cases, unidentified perpetrators up from 30% to 44%, and fewer than one in five intimate-partner femicides ending in a conviction. That is a pre-trial and investigation failure, which is exactly what this inquiry is asking about. The NPC’s November 2024 advisory on the Integrated Crime and Violence Prevention Strategy makes the same point from the other end: Cabinet adopted ICVPS in March 2022; governance and accountability for implementation are still the gap.
That is the live debate under Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy — NSP-GBVF targets, FCS units, Thuthuzela expansion, station-level Domestic Violence Act compliance — still under review. The call, submission emails, and linked papers sit on /calls. For the human-capital frame (violence as a binding constraint on learning and labour supply), see the textbook’s Chapter 9.