FEATURE-South Africa's war on gender violence overlooks children-activists
Published on: Dec. 15, 2025, 2:32 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
But child rights activists say the classification does not prioritise children enough who are nearly half of the number of sexual offence victims in South Africa. "We commend the declaration, but we urgently need more funding and action allocated to children specifically, and this has to happen now," said Shahedah Omar, the director of the Teddy Bear Clinic, a charity assisting abused children with medical, legal and psychosocial support.
