List of Figures

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Published in Monograph No 41: Violence Against Women in Metropolitan South Africa, September 1999

Figure 1: How often abuse occurred

Figure 2: Where the most serious incident of abuse happened

Figure 3: Time women took to tell someone about abuse

Figure 4: Choice of most serious type of abuse according to whether abuser was known or not

Figure 5: How the victim-offender relationship affects a woman's ability to choose one incident as most serious

Figure 6: What women were doing at the time of the worst incident of abuse

Figure 7: Objects and weapons used during the abuse

Figure 8: Relationship of women to their abusers

Figure 9: Behaviour of the abuser after the incident

Figure 10: Types of treatment suggested for abusers

Figure 11: How women are currently affected by abuse

Figure 12: Emotional responses to abuse

Figure 13: Potential consequences that worried women and those that resulted after abuse

Figure 14: Who women turned to for help after worst incident of abuse

Figure 15: Reasons for not receiving medical attention within an hour of the incident

Figure 16: Comments about the service received from trained counsellors

Figure 17: How social welfare services can be improved

Figure 18: How the services of district surgeons can be improved

Figure 19: How courts can improve service to abused women

Figure 20: Percentage of women who felt unsafe in various locations

Figure 21: Where women felt most unsafe

Figure 22: Reasons for a lack of confidence in the local police

Figure 23: How government can improve safety for women

Figure 24: Community-level solutions to reduce women abuse

Figure 25: What women's groups or neighbourhood groups can do to enhance women's safety

List of Tables

Table 1: Study sample

Table 2: Demographics of participants

Table 3: Types of economic abuse experiences

Table 4: Age at which most serious incident of abuse occurred

Table 5: Types of emotional abuse experienced

Table 6: Types of physical abuse experiences

Table 7: Types of sexual abuse experiences

Table 8: Type of abuse considered most serious

Table 9: Place where the most serious incident of abuse occurred

Table 10: Victim's age when the most serious incident of abuse was committed

Table 11: Who, other than the abuser, was present during the worst incident of abuse?

Table 12: Age and gender of perpetrators of the worst incident of abuse

Table 13: Marital status of perpetrators of the worst incident of abuse

Table 14: Past effects of abuse

Table 15: Symptoms experienced as a result of the worst incident of abuse

Table 16: Who survivors of domestic and non-domestic abuse turned to for support

Table 17: How the police treated women when they reported abuse

Table 18: Whether police followed standard procedures wehn abuse was reported

Table 19: Cases in which the police informed women of their rights when making a statement

Table 20: Cases in which the police informed women about their legal options

Table 21: Why women stopped going to counselling after a specified period of time

Table 22: Suggestions for improving the police's service

Table 23: Suggestions for improving service at emergency clinics

Table 24: How safe women feel in their neighbourhoods

Table 25: How safe women feel at home, in public and at work

Table 26: New organisations required at community level

Table 27: What women said they could personally do to reduce women abuse