Appendix 2, Suggestions About What the Government Communities and Women Themselves can do to Reduce Violence Against Women - Violence Against Women in Metropolitan South Africa, A Study on Impact and Service Delivery - Monograph No 41, 1999


	Appendix 2 Suggestions About What the Government Communities and Women Themselves can do to Reduce Violence Against Women Published in Monograph No 41: Violence Against Women in Metropolitan South Africa, September 1999 Government level 1 General improvements • General improvement, e.g. keep promises, meet needs • Welfare/health, e.g. crisis centres, help for vagrants • Address problems of abuser and offer counselling to them 2 Improve the criminal justice system • Allow community courts to sentence • No parole for abusers • Structure legislation and co-ordinate departments better • Legal efficacy, e.g. more effective prosecutions and interdicts 3 Create employment • Create employment, e.g. for women • Create employment to fight poverty 4 Improve infrastructure • Improve housing • Organise safe transport • More lighting • Remove visibility blocks • Install more public or emergency telephones 5 Restrict alcohol sales/shebeens/clubs • Curfew and pass system for men and alcohol restrictions • Remove shebeens or clubs from urban areas 6 Provide community security • Employ security guards in public areas • Neighbourhood watch • Support community by policing areas Community level 1 Female activism • Female activism, e.g. fight together 2 Communities involved in crime prevention • Communities should fight crime • Communities and police unite • Neighbourhood watch • Increase the reporting of abuse • Society to take responsibility for the problem 3 Police and justice systems more involved/efficient/accessible • Station environment improved, e.g. comfortable • Improve legal efficacy, e.g. cases investigated properly • Police trained on domestic violence • Police stationed at community centres • Police posted at main streets in townships • Female police employed 4 Support/counselling • Abused women to attend support groups • Greater counselling opportunities for abusers and victim 5 Community punishment/justice • Public humiliation of abusers • Community courts should give sentences • Public punishments for abusers Personal level 1 Nothing • Nothing or little • Nothing - too afraid 2 Female activism against abuse • Unite women to fight abuse. 3 Train/equip women • Equip women with protection, e.g. guns, panic buttons, etc. 4 Radical action • Beat abusers • Public punishment of abusers 5 Other • Help eradicate poverty • Offer legal assistance for women, lobbying