PRESS RELEASES

Urgent justice needed as Action Society takes up the case of 9-year-old Zechariah Matthee amid a deadly surge in shootings across Cape Town
Action Society has received a mandate from the family of nine-year-old Zechariah Matthee to oversee the case after he was brutally murdered during a mass

Urgent justice needed as Action Society takes up the case of 9-year-old Zechariah Matthee amid a deadly surge in shootings across Cape Town
Action Society has received a mandate from the family of nine-year-old Zechariah Matthee to oversee the case after he was brutally murdered during a mass

Child murdered in Rocklands mass shooting – Action Society calls for urgent policing capacity and the localisation of police services
Action Society will attend the memorial service in Mitchells Plain today following the brutal murder of a nine-year-old boy and

Courtwrap: A justice system in collapse; Action Society condemns failures as women and children remain unprotected
South Africa is facing an unrelenting crisis of violence against women and children, yet the systems responsible for safeguarding them

Justice for Nosiphiwo James must not be delayed again
Action Society urges the Khayelitsha Regional Court to bring an end to the repeated postponements in the case of Sivuyile

Action Society: Latest crime stats show the basics of policing have collapsed
The newly released crime statistics for Q1 and Q2 of 2025/26 show once again that the fundamentals of policing in

As South Africa turns purple, Action Society releases hard-hitting report on violence against children
As South Africa turns purple in support of the Women For Change initiative to highlight the national crisis of violence

Action Society demands answers as PAIA request remains unanswered and Wynberg Magistrates Court escape exposes systemic failure
Action Society notes with serious concern that almost five weeks have passed since its Promotion of Access to Information Act