This pillar focuses on strengthening the criminal justice response to handling gender-based violence and femicide cases. It asks, “Why is the system failing, and how can we improve it?” The goal is to ensure survivors can access quick, sensitive, and effective justice. Key solutions include:
– Clearing backlogs in case investigations and DNA testing.
– Improving coordination between police, prosecutors, and magistrates.
– Holding SAPS accountable in handling GBV cases.
– Setting up DNA labs in rural areas like the Eastern Cape.
– Establishing 11 sexual offences courts.
– Tackling online sexual violence.
Five-Year Outcomes
3.1. All GBV survivors are able to access efficient and sensitive criminal justice that is quick, accessible, responsive and gender inclusive;
3.2. Strengthened capacity within the criminal justice system to address all impunity, effectively respond to femicide and facilitate justice for GBV survivors;
3.3. Amended legislation related to GBV areas that build on legislative reforms initiated under the ERAP.
MOSAIC’s role –
- Civil society co-convener of Pillar 3
- Co-chair of the Pillar 3 monthly meetings together with the National Department of Justice;
- Elected representative of the DOJCD-convened National Intersectoral Committee on Domestic Violence and Femicide to Pillar 3
- Civil society representative on all working groups considering amendments to domestic violence, law, policy and procedures,