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NISAA WOMEN'S INSTITUTE

  • Offers counselling for women and children
  • Offers telephonic as well as one to one counselling
  • Training for community groups
  • Workshops and seminars
Lenasia
T: 011-8545804
STOP WOMAN ABUSE HELPLINE (a Lifeline project)
0800 150 150
Communicates to clients in all 11 official languages.

SEX WORKER EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY TASK FORCE (SWEAT)

  • Outreach to agencies and massage parlours
  • HIV/STD education workshops
  • Condom distribution network
  • Legal advice
  • Facilitation of sex worker/police forums to improve police protection of sex workers
T/F: 021-4487875
F: 021-4484089

http://www.womensnet.org.za

AGISANANG DOMESTIC ABUSE PREVENTION (ADAPT)

  • Workshops for health workers on accurate identification and appropriate health interventions for abused women
  • Training for other professionals eg. police on appropriate interventions for abused women
  • Training on personal development and basic counselling for community counsellors
  • Individual counselling for rape survivors and men
  • Support groups for abused women
  • Support programmes for young women and men
  • Workshops for women's and men's organisations, youth groups, churches, schools, universities and other community-based organisations
Oliver Tambo Community Centre
T: 011-7866608/8853305
F: 011-8853309

Alexandra Health Clinic
T: 011-4404047

 

PEOPLE OPPOSING WOMEN ABUSE (POWA)
Offers information, counselling services, support groups.
Will refer you to rape crisis centres and womens’ support group nearest to you.

www.powa.co.za
POWA Head Office: Berea
Postal Address: POWA, P.O. Box 93416, Yeoville 2143
E-mail: info@powa.co.za
Telephone: (011) 642 4345/6
Fax: (011) 484 3195
After hours cellphone: 083 765-1235
pager: (011) 231 5050 code RS7160, from 17h30 till 21h00 weekdays and 24 hours on weekends.

 

http://www.womensnet.org.za

ILITHA LABANTU

  • One to one counselling
  • Support group services
  • Training women about violence
  • Youth desk dealing with sexual harassment, date rape etc.
  • Family enrichment programme, dealing with marriage and domestic violence.
Guguletu
T: 021-6332383
F: 021-6382956

http://www.womensnet.org.za

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION (THE TRAUMA CLINIC)

  • Provide individual counselling for people who have been affected by violence-both adults and children
  • Group debriefings by couples, families and company employees
  • Educative talks and workshops concerning the experience of and reactions to trauma and violence
  • Training courses for service providers working in trauma related fields
Johannesburg
T: 011-4035102

PEOPLE OPPOSING WOMEN ABUSE (POWA)

  • Counselling, shelter and support services for the survivors of violence
  • against women
  • Legal advice and court support
  • Lobbying and advocacy for legislative and attitude change
  • Research, documentation and publication of materials
  • Public education
  • Training and income generating activities
  • Information and referrals for abused women and their families

Yeoville
T: 011-6424345/6
F: 011-4843195

Katlehong
T: 011-8602858

Soweto
T: 011-9332333

HELPLINE
T: 011-6424345/6 (08h30-16h30 weekdays)

PAGER SERVICE
T: 011-6505050 (17h30-21h00, 24hrs weekends)

MOSAIC

  • Offers a year long training course for women community workers
  • Counselling skills training courses for women who want to help other women in need
  • Educational presentations about abuse for women and men
  • Women's support groups and workshops
  • Gender sensitive counselling for women
  • Conflict resolution
Cape Town
T: 021-4347916

SEXUAL HARASSMENT EDUCATION PROJECT (SHEP)

  • training and raising awareness
  • providing advisory and referral services
  • developing rules and procedures including codes of conduct grievance and
  • disciplinary procedures
  • producing educational materials
  • promoting legislative changes
  • operating a resource materials centre
Braamfontein
T: 011-4035650
F: 011-4037535/3396785

SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S SHELTER MOVEMENT

The SA Women's Shelter Movement networks between all known shelters that specialise in assisting abused women in SA in order to improve on services provided.

  • Networking with shelters and other organisations within and outside South Africa
  • · Lobbying for recognition of the problem of women abuse and more effective governmental assistance to women and their children
  • Educating lay and professional people on the problem of women abuse and the needs of abused women and children
  • Generating research and information about women abuse and the various aspects of shelter work
  • Fundraising on behalf of the Movement and its shelters
National Co-ordinator
Charlotte Gaitskill
T/F: 031-2075880

Kwazulu Natal
Priscilla Joseph
T: 031-2044922

Gauteng
Julie Taylor
T: 011-8545804

Western Cape
Elizabeth Petersen
T: 021-4486792

Eastern Cape
Nicki Stander
T: 041-559393

Northern Cape
Cynthia Petersen
T: 0531-7132995

Free State
Morongoe Ntsala
T: 058-713299

Mpumalanga
Alice Matsane
T: 013-7528085

NATIONAL NETWORK ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Network of domestic violence service provider organisations

Eastern Cape
Gomolemo Moshoe
T: 0404-22279
F: 04060-22010

Free State
Susan Ehlers
T: 051-4476678
F: 051-4476694

Gauteng
Mmabatho Ramagoshi T: 012-3416362
F: 012-3416844

Kwazulu-Natal
Rashida Manjoo
T/F 031-2026923

Mpumalanga
Priscilla Themba
T: 013-7593700
F: 013-7527748

Northern Cape
Tshulane Khosa
T: 0531-814999

Northern Province
Mmanthe Ntjie
T: 0512-2321141

North West
Nono Pooe
T/F: 0140-882418

Western Cape
Margo Lochrenberg
T: 021-471467
F: 021-475458

     

TSHWARANANG LEGAL ADVOCACY CENTRE

  • Responding to policy documents and new bills from the South African Law Commission and Parliament.
  • Producing an national legal manual on violence against women for NGO service providers.
  • Monitoring judgements for sexist bias.
  • Organising an election 1999 campaign to make violence againstwomen an election issue.
  • Devising training protocols for all law enforcement agents including police, district surgeons, magistrates and judges.
  • Monitoring the way the media reports on violence against women.
  • Compiling a resource centre of information and books on legal advocacy and violence against women.
  • Offering workshops on legal advocacy and the use of the legal system in cases of gender violence.
Braamfontein
T: 011-4034267/70
F: 011-4034275

WOMEN AGAINST WOMEN ABUSE

  • Training of support groups in all aspects of abuse including child abuse
  • Training in aspects of the law pertaining to child and woman abuse
  • Counselling services
  • Shelter (presently only at Eldorado Park)
  • Training in how shelters operate
National Co-ordinator
Maggie Mthembu
T: 011-8365656 / 082 8866585

Northern Province
Freda Mathibela
T: 082 8866590

Northern Cape
Agnes Nthlangula
T: 082 8866597

Mpumalanga
Kate Mahlaba
T: 082 8866582

Free State
Sesi Malinga
T: 057-3963083

Gauteng
Dina Nkobo
T: 082 8866707

Western Cape
Ruth Mpekula
T: 082 8866602

Eastern Cape
Nontobeko Fosilara
T: 041-446246

North West
Angeline Molebatsi
T: 082 8866599