" A house where a women is unsafe is not a home," -Nisa Homes
Our Mission
Safe Space Organisation NPC exists so that no womxn has to face violence in silence. We give people a way to report incidents, find trustworthy information and support, and see where violence is happening so that communities can act.
Report
The Report Incident platform lets anyone record an incident of gender-based violence.
Map
The Map shows where reported incidents are concentrated, so communities and partners can see patterns.
Inform
Our Resources page points to services, rights and next steps in plain language.
Support
Donations keep this work running. Every contribution is welcome.
How we work
Survivors come first.We believe people, we respect their choices, and we never pressure anyone to report.
Honest information.We name our sources, show the date of each article and correct mistakes when we find them.
Privacy matters.Read how we handle personal information in our Privacy Policy.
What we are not
Safe Space is not an emergency service, and nothing on this site is legal, medical or counselling advice. If you are in immediate danger, call the police or the GBV Command Centre using the numbers above. Read our Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions.
Safe Space Organisation NPC is a non-profit company based in South Africa. Banking details for donations are listed below.
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Latest News
Gender-based violence legislation is not enough
by Chloe,
South Africa does not lack laws against gender-based violence. The Domestic Violence Act of 1998 lets survivors apply for a protection order, and the Sexual Offences Act of 2007 widened the legal definition of rape and set out how these cases must be handled.
Yet police recorded 42 289 rapes in 2025/26, an average of 116 every day, and research suggests that many rapes never reach the police. A law only protects someone when it is applied: when a police station takes a statement with dignity, when a protection order is served, when a case reaches court and when a shelter has a bed.
Legislation is the starting point. Funding, training and accountability at local level decide whether it works.
Sources: SAPS 2025/26 crime statistics briefing (PMG); Africa Check on rape statistics and under-reporting.
GBV: Structural inequalities exacerbate our hidden pandemic of violence against women
by Chloe,
Violence does not fall evenly. It concentrates where women have the least power to leave: where a partner’s income pays the rent, where safe housing is out of reach and where jobs are scarce. Police recorded the murder of 2 695 women, roughly one every three hours (the figure was preliminary).
Many women were confined at home with the person hurting them, while the services they rely on were stretched. The violence was already there. Lockdown made it harder to see and harder to escape.
Ending it means more than punishing offenders. It means jobs, housing, schooling and services that give people real options.
Sources: SAPS 2025/26 crime statistics briefing (PMG); SAnews on the GBV Command Centre.
Battling poverty and hunger, Graaff-Reinet community stands up against rape
by Chloe,
Graaff-Reinet sits in the Eastern Cape, the province that recorded South Africa’s highest murder rate in 2025/26, at 59.5 per 100 000 people. A community that is already coping with poverty and hunger and still chooses to stand up against rape deserves our attention.
It shows what Safe Space believes: safety is built locally, by people who know their neighbours. Survivors need to know where to go, neighbours need to know how to respond without putting themselves at risk, and local services need to hear what the community is telling them.
Source: SAPS 2025/26 crime statistics briefing (PMG); provincial murder rate as reported by Africa Check from SAPS and Statistics South Africa data.
Statistics are taken from official South African Police Service releases and may have been revised since publication.
