What has happened since the Gender Summit?

Abstract

The momentum built up following the 2018 march to the Union Buildings demanding action against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF), and the Gender Summit that followed, appears to have petered out. We now have in place a National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide … but where is the legislative framework that was promised more than a year ago to support it? Gender activists say COVID-19 and other factors may have slowed the process, but it is the ministry that has put on the brake.