​Thembisa Shologu
As part of its response towards the fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) has recently launched a green door in Orange Farm.
Officially opening the centre, MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko said this was another intervention that the provincial government was making to ensure that communities in Orange Farm do not continue to suffer.
"With this Green door being opened here in Orange Farm, we believe that this is another intervention that we are making as the department to ensure that communities here do not continuously suffer, do not get secondary victimised but that they are able to access all the services very quickly and efficiently. 
"There has been incidents of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and with a slow response or  no response from the South African Police Service (SAPS) at all, so that is why we are now creating a safety net for victims of GBV in what we call our green doors, so that victims are able to wait here, get support and get counselling," said MEC Mazibuko.
Mazibuko said the Green door was not necessarily a place where a person could sleep in, "but a place just for containment whilst a victim awaits for the police to come, be of assistance, take over the case and then the victim will get proper referral or be sent to the relevant places for help."
Orange Farm is listed amongst the top 30 Gender-Based Violence hotspots in the country and recently recorded the highest number of reported incidents of violence perpetrated against women and children in the province.