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Naija Feminists Media stands in solidarity with South African women protesting gender-based violence and calls for the government to declare femicide a national emergency.
November 21, 2025
We at Naija Feminists Media stand in full solidarity with the women of South Africa who are organising a nationwide shutdown against the relentless violence, femicide, and institutional neglect that have made the country unsafe for women. This week, hundreds of women are mobilising under movements like Women For Change, demanding accountability from a system that has failed to protect them.
South Africa has one of the highest femicide rates in the world. According to the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the overall femicide rate is 10.6 per 100,000 women, and nearly 60% of murdered women are killed by intimate partners. Every day, women are raped, beaten, and killed, while the state issues statements instead of solutions. The protesters are demanding justice, safety, and a government that values women’s lives as much as men’s comfort.
Femicide is not a South African problem alone. It is an African crisis. From Cape Town to Abuja, patriarchal violence is being normalised under culture, religion, and silence. Every government that refuses to protect women is complicit. Every police officer who dismisses survivors is part of the violence.
We join in the call on the South African government to declare femicide a national emergency and take immediate, measurable action to end the killings. We also call on African feminist movements, civil society organisations, and the media to amplify the voices of South African women and demand coordinated continental action against femicide.
This is not the time for silence. It is time for action.
In solidarity,
Naija Feminists Media
