100-day-challenge

Drakenstein Municipality’s 2026 100-Day Challenge team has set seven goals. Together, they aim to reach thousands of learners, connect 1 000 survivors to support and build a faster, better-coordinated GBVF response across the municipal area. The team chose each goal based on current local needs. They also aligned the goals with stakeholder key performance indicators, so partner institutions can see the work as part of their own mandates. Team leaders and two experienced mentors guide the challenge, and the whole team shares the delivery.

Learner pregnancy, the reporting of sexually related matters and how sexual harassment policies are being used in schools are among the issues receiving attention in Mafikeng’s 100-Day Challenge.

For communities spread across Moretele Local Municipality’s 26 wards, accessing a government service can mean far more than joining a queue. In some of the municipality’s rural areas, residents must travel considerable distances, pay transport costs and spend most of the day away from home simply to apply for an identity document (ID) or resolve an administrative problem.

When the Swartland team began its new 100-Day Challenge on 18 August 2026, it was building on programmes already taking place across the municipality. Government departments and community organisations were working on child protection, gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), substance abuse and mental health, alongside services supporting individuals and families.

Much of the conversation about gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) encourages people to report. Tell someone. Speak to a teacher. Ask for help. But someone has to know what to do with that information.

A campaign asking people to speak about gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) also has to be ready for what happens when they do. That is one of the interesting developments coming out of the 100-Day Challenge in Greater Tzaneen. The Department of Social Development and Correctional Services, working with Letaba TVET College, has reached more than 3,000 young people at the college and secondary schools across the region.

In August, the Breaking Through Team in Stellenbosch moved its 100-Day Challenge out of meeting rooms and into the streets and homes of two communities. Their goal for these 100 days is a demanding one: to equip at least 100 community members to recognise the signs of abuse, respond safely, and refer survivors to the right support services, so that more incidents are reported and communities become safer places to live.

Majuba TVET College Dundee Technology Centre, in partnership with Higher Health, successfully hosted an engaging Men’s Dialogue aimed at empowering and educating male students on issues that affect their personal, social, and professional development.

What does addressing gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) look like when the workplace is also where people live, raise their children and spend most of their lives?

This is one of the questions informing SANParks’ 100-Day Challenge in Kruger National Park where many staff members live in villages within the park. This makes KNP an important setting for understanding some of the conditions that can contribute to GBVF and what can be done to address them.

At Modimolle, Onicca Maponya’s teams took on three 100-Day Challenges at once, each difficult in its own way, and each tied to a person waiting for the system to work.