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Mandela Day Justice Pack Drive

Communications, Fundraising, GBV / Gender based violence, Get Involved, Road To Justice

Rape Crisis invites you to join us for our Mandela Day Justice Pack Drive taking place on Friday, 17 July 2026 from 10:00 to 14:00 at the 2U office (358 Victoria Road, Salt River), where we will be assembling Justice Packs for survivors and their supporters accessing our court support services.

This marks the second year that we are hosting our Mandela Day drive at the 2U office in Salt River. We are deeply grateful to the 2U team for once again opening their doors and partnering with us in support of survivors and their supporters during their court journeys.

What are Justice Packs?

Justice Packs are provided to survivors and their supporters when they access courts where Rape Crisis offers court support services. Court processes can be emotionally and physically exhausting, often involving long waiting periods and moments where survivors may be required to revisit traumatic experiences.

These packs are a small but meaningful form of support during that process. They include snacks, refreshments, and essential items that help provide comfort, dignity, and care throughout long and often difficult days at court.

How you can get involved

There are three ways to support the Justice Pack Drive:

Join us at the 2U office (358 Victoria Road, Salt River) to help assemble Justice Packs alongside our team and community supporters
Donate funds to help us purchase Justice Pack items
Arrange a drop-off of in-kind donations at our Observatory office (23 Trill Road)

Justice Pack items

Essential items:
Cup noodles, biscuits/snacks, juice boxes or water, utensils, small tissue packs, serviettes, sanitary towels

Additional items:
Wet wipes or antibacterial wipes, hand sanitiser (small bottles), energy bars, and small treats such as sweets or chocolate

Banking details for donations

Account name: Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust
Bank: Standard Bank
Branch: Rondebosch
Branch code: 025009
Account number: 073600911
Type: Savings Account
SWIFT code: SBZAZAJJ
IBAN: 051001

Please use your name, surname, and “Mandela Day” as your reference.

Mandela Day is about more than giving. It is about showing up in meaningful ways and standing alongside survivors as they navigate their path to justice. Every contribution helps us provide Justice Packs that offer care, comfort, and dignity to survivors and their supporters during court proceedings.

For any queries, please contact jameelah@rapecrisis.org.za

We look forward to seeing you at the Justice Pack Drive.

24th June 2026/by Sino

Rape Crisis Fundraising Event

Donate, GBV / Gender based violence, Get Involved, Making Change, Speak Out

Join Rape Crisis for a special screening of the acclaimed South African documentary Dorpie at an evening of insight, reflection and storytelling under the stars at Maynardville Park.

As our very first fundraiser, this event will be dedicated to raising awareness and strengthening community through the power of art in support of our mission to build safe houses, safe homes and safe communities. These are spaces where consent, care and compassion are the foundation of our shared humanity.

This evening will be more than a film screening – it’s an invitation to reflect on what safety means in the places we call home.

Through the documentary, an engaging panel discussion and a thought-provoking visual art installation titled Safe Houses, we’ll explore themes of consent, healing and empowerment. Together we’ll foster dialogue, promote healing and celebrate the resilience of survivors.

Expect a gentle yet powerful atmosphere filled with moving art, good food and opportunities to engage, learn and connect.

Date: Friday, 5th December 2025

Time:19:00pm – 22:00pm

Venue: Maynardville Park, Cape Town

Tickets: https://qkt.io/YNjvtc

Every voice matters, and every contribution helps – together we can turn compassion into action and art into advocacy. Your ticket supports Rape Crisis in our mission to support survivors, advocate for justice and nurture a culture of safety and consent in South Africa.

Let’s come together to celebrate the strength of survivors, the power of community and our shared vision of safe houses, safe homes and safe communities.

26th November 2025/by Sino

Access to Post Rape Care, Everywhere

Advocacy, Get Involved, Making Change, Road To Justice, RSJC

If you follow the Rape Survivors’ Justice Campaign’s digital platforms, you have probably come across a post about Thuthuzela Care Centres (TCCs). These are one-stop facilities where rape survivors can access medical care, psychosocial support, and can even report the rape to the police. They sound great. And in many instances they are great. But there are only 55 of them in our country which spans 1,221 million km². That is A LOT of km².

That means there are countless small towns, rural communities and housing settlements where there is no TCC in sight. Nada. Not one. Not even a whiff of a TCC. And the obvious question is, what about rape survivors who don’t have access to such a one-stop facility? That is the question that the RSJC team at Rape Crisis has been grappling with over the past few years. Our successful work on sexual offences courts has shown us that a survivor-centred criminal justice system is important. It has also reminded us that many rape survivors never see the inside of a court, often because they do not have access to the first step in the criminal justice system – post rape care.

As activists and advocates for change, we have to imagine the world as it COULD be. And we imagine access to care, everywhere. We dream of a South Africa where every rape survivor in the 1 221 million km² that is our country has access to:

– medical care,

– a forensic examination,

– psycho-social support,

– a referral for longer term counselling, and the

– means to report the crime at the police.

Every rape survivor having access to these five components of post rape care is the change that we want.

We therefore advocate for these five components/services to be protected in legislation and to be provided to survivors in every corner of the country. The mechanism of how these services are delivered could look different in different contexts. It might be at a local clinic. It might be at a state hospital. It might be in a van. It might be at a TCC.

If you spent your precious time reading this blog, we believe that this is a change that you care about too. This will be a long journey (it took us five years to get Sexual Offences Courts protected in legislation with a set of minimum standards and a plan for the rollout and designation). So Access to Care, Everywhere will probably be no different.

If you are here for that, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and share our work so that even more people can join this cause. We WILL need your support!

Written by

Jeanne Bodenstein

Advocacy Specialist

17th February 2022/by Sino

The Best Internship Ever: Reflections on My Time with Rape Crisis

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I first became interested in the issue of sexual violence when learning about rape on United States university campuses. I wanted to better understand sexual violence on a global scale, and so I sought out a foreign organization working in this domain. Eventually, I found Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust! I saw that Rape Crisis […]