Did you know:

• 0.3% of women in South Africa report gender-based violence to the police.
• Four women are killed by their partners in South Africa every day.
• The second most common cause of these deaths occurs when women decide to end their relationships.
• Sexual offences against women increased from 31 665 in 2015/16 to 70 813 in 2016/17.
• Domestic violence has the most repeat victims of any other crime in that a victim suffers 35 assaults on average before reporting it to the police the first time.
• South Africa’s female homicide rate is six times above the global average.
• South Africa has the highest level of adult per capita alcohol consumption in Africa. Alcohol abuse contributes to increased levels of both Gender-Based Violence and HIV.
• South Africa has an estimated 6,800,000 people living with HIV, making it one of the countries with the highest infection rates in the world.
• Over 41% of rapes reported in South Africa involve children under age 18.

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