As women of diverse age, race, language and religious conviction - schoolgirls, students, working women, housewives and civil society - take a stand against gender-based violence; all saying, “this is enough”, the SPAR organisation, feels that we need to add ‘our’ voice.

 
SPAR is very proud of its values of ‘Family, Passion and Entrepreneurship’. We are also very conscious of the need to be courageous in living by our values. To this end, we join the growing voices in our society, who have called on our President and all leaders in our country to take cognisance of and to act on the ever-increasing levels of gender-based violence in our country.
 
We also acknowledge that the term ‘violence against women and children’ is a passive construction with no active agent in the sentence. This assumes that bad things just ‘happen’ to women and children. We need to recognise that the silent active agent in the sentence is ‘men’. While not all men abuse women and children, we need to acknowledge that the abuse doesn’t just happen, and that it is generally perpetrated by men.
 
The SPAR Group Ltd  offers its sincere support for the victims of gender-based violence and to their respective loved ones who are impacted by this violence. SPAR is partnering with organisations to be part of working towards a practical solution.