In November 2025 South Africa classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster. This series by Nhlanhla Nkosi, who describes himself as a gender-based violence specialist at the African Development Bank in Pretoria, looks at what has followed. The views in this series are his own. The Field checks the main figures in each piece against the reports linked in the text.
The pieces
- Part 1: South Africa Called Femicide a National Disaster. Forensics and Investigators Get Under 4 Percent of the Money Published October 24, 2026
- Part 2: Where women are attacked Coming
- Part 3: How violence starts Coming
The second and third pieces will be linked here when they are published.