The Victim Empowerment Programme aims to lessen the long-term impact of crime by proactively tending to the needs of all victims.
What is a victim?
What is victim empowerment?
How does the government plan to promote victim empowerment?
Where can all these victim empowerment services be accessed?
A victim is any person who suffered physical or psychological harm or economic loss because of the criminal acts of others.
The definition also includes people whose human rights were violated as a result of what someone - usually a person or a group of people in power - did or failed to do.
Victim empowerment refers to the idea that all people, not just professionals, have the skills and competencies they need to help others and themselves cope better with crime and violence.
By implication, this means that the fight against crime and against the effects of crime is everyone's responsibility.
Promoting partnerships between various state bodies, and between the state, non-government organisations, business, volunteers, religious bodies and academia to improve participation, co-operation and public awareness of crime-fighting initiatives and victim services.
Viewing crime as a social issue, not a security issue.
Crime prevention, rather than crime control.
The state and non-governmental organisations offer a number of services for the men, women and children who have been victims of crime and violence.
Observing national and international days such as International Women's Day (8 March), International Family Day (15 May), Youth Day (16 June) and National Women's Day (9 August).
The services and programmes listed above are mostly offered by non-profit organisations that either have government funding or are endorsed by government.
Where there is no link to follow, click here to download the Directory of Services to Victims of Violence, a comprehensive list of all the facilities that offer Victim Empowerment services, divided according to the type of service rendered.