ActionSA Demands No Safe Space for Abusers-Online or Offline
Press Statement by Kholofelo Morodi
ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum Provincial Chairperson
As we launch the 2025 edition of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum stands with every woman, every girl, and every child who has carried the weight of violence. We stand with survivors whose voices have been silenced, whose dignity has been stolen, and whose courage inspires us to fight harder.
This year’s theme, UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls, is not just a slogan—it is a cry from the heart of Gauteng. Online abuse is not virtual—it is real. It wounds, it isolates, and it leaves scars that are invisible but deeply felt. From cyberbullying and image-based exploitation to gendered hate speech and digital stalking, perpetrators are weaponising technology to shame, silence, and destroy. We will not allow it.
Our Gauteng Commitment
We demand laws that protect survivors with urgency and compassion, not bureaucracy and delay.
Our policy framework is survivor-centred: every woman deserves to be believed, supported, and protected.
Perpetrators must face justice. They must feel the weight of accountability in every space—online and offline.
Our Call to Gauteng Stakeholders
Government must act with empathy and urgency, ensuring survivors are not retraumatised by the system meant to protect them.
Faith-based institutions must speak with moral courage, reminding us that silence is complicity.
Civil society must walk alongside survivors, offering solidarity and healing from Alexandra to Mamelodi, from Soweto to Hammanskraal.
Tech platforms must stop hiding behind policies and start protecting real people-our sisters, daughters, and mothers.
Communities must embrace survivors with compassion, reject stigma, and build circles of safety and dignity.
Our Vision for Gauteng
ActionSA espouses a Gauteng where survivors are not shamed but celebrated for their strength. Where every child grows up free from fear. Where abusers are not shielded but exposed, isolated, and held accountable. Digital violence is real violence-and we will not rest until it ends.
ActionSA Demands No Safe Space for Abusers-Online or Offline
As we launch the 2025 edition of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum stands with every woman, every girl, and every child who has carried the weight of violence. We stand with survivors whose voices have been silenced, whose dignity has been stolen, and whose courage inspires us to fight harder.
This year’s theme, UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls, is not just a slogan—it is a cry from the heart of Gauteng. Online abuse is not virtual—it is real. It wounds, it isolates, and it leaves scars that are invisible but deeply felt. From cyberbullying and image-based exploitation to gendered hate speech and digital stalking, perpetrators are weaponising technology to shame, silence, and destroy. We will not allow it.
Our Gauteng Commitment
Our Call to Gauteng Stakeholders
Our Vision for Gauteng
ActionSA espouses a Gauteng where survivors are not shamed but celebrated for their strength. Where every child grows up free from fear. Where abusers are not shielded but exposed, isolated, and held accountable. Digital violence is real violence-and we will not rest until it ends.
UNiTE. Believe Survivors. End Digital Violence.