TO END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND FEMICIDE contradictions and meet the new challenges facing
(GBV), THE ANC WILL: South Africa.
• Implement the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based • Locate refugee and asylum centres close to border post.
Violence and Femicide.
• Regulate employment of foreign workers in line with the
• Expand victim support services, like the Thuthuzela Centres National Labour Migration Policy, to give preference to South
and GBV desks in police stations. African job-seekers and act against employment and
exploitation of undocumented persons.
• Undertake public campaigns against toxic
masculinity, sexism and homophobia. • Simplify visa applications.
• Promote gender equality and the empowerment of women • Use technology to modernise systems to prevent fraud and
and girls. bogus documents.
• Promote adherence, working with trade unions and SUPPORT AND ASSIST MILITARY VETERANS
businesses, to ILO Convention 190 to eradicate violence and
harassment in the workplace. South Africa has a duty to appreciate and take care of its
military veterans who fought against apartheid and those who
IMMIGRATION went in service of the nation after 1994. The ANC will work
to ensure that every sector of society, government and business
To address the illegal immigration, the ANC will: contributes to the restoration of dignity to military veterans,
particularly former liberation war combatants and those who
• Complete the overhaul of our immigration policy and served in the army of democracy, and ensure that their gallant
systems including the Citizenship Act, Refugees Act and choice is appreciated and that their welfare and that of their
Immigration Act, towards a single law dealing with loved ones is taken care of.
citizenship, immigration and refugees to prevent
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