Zubeda is a founder, and the director of the Nisaa Institute for Women's Development. The organisation has the goal of "enabling women and children to live in a world free of violence." Nisaa was formed in April 1994. She is also the Executive Head of the National Shelter Movement.

In our discussion Zubeda gives a sobering and gritty picture of what it is like working on the front line of the struggle against gender and domestic violence. And we get a sense of the immense work, the thankless and extremely stressful work that is done by social workers, counselors and other members  of this vast and unsung network of NPOs and NGOs that work in this field across South Africa.

What is startlingly clear is that the government response even at the most basic levels, and that of business for that matter, is sorely lacking.

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