Pre- SONA 2019 Media Release on Gender Based Violence

Posted: 25th June 2019/Under: Budget for change - media, Media, SPII in the Media/By: SPII

FEMINIST CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL ON PRESIDENT AND MINISTER
OF FINANCE TO MAKE GOOD ON PROMISES TO FUND THE FIGHT AGAINST
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
20 June 2019 – despite President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pronouncements in the February 2019 State of the Nation Address (SONA) that funding would be allocated to combat Gender-Based Violence, when Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, delivered his budget speech on 20 February 2019, there were no new allocations to combat Gender-Based Violence.