NGO's under the banner of the Shukumisa Campaign say they want to see public condemnation of rape and abuse translated into rands and cents.
The organisations, which comprises 22 non-governmental organisations, says Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, must recognise the demand for better services for rape survivors when he tables his budget in parliament this afternoon.
Shukumisa spokesperson, Lisa Vetten, says their call is amplified in the wake of reports that many specialised rape survivor care centres had not received state funding for several months.
"In a number of government centres for example organisations have not been paid for the last 6 months to provide these services. They either had to pull out of these services all together diminishing the quality of the services being provided to rape survivors, or they are working for free, so we would like to see a firm commitment for the provision of services to these survivors" Vetten said.
They also want Gordhan to say how much is going to be made available for the establishment of new specialised sexual offences courts.
She says the justice ministry recently announced that 95 such courts will be established over the next five years.
Vetten says they want to know what the cost of these courts will be and what will be done with the remainder of the country where there's no budget to establish these courts.
"I think we would also like to see some money going towards training police officers properly in order to take statements properly from survivors as well as to investigate properly. I think we were all very embarrassed by the efforts of Warrant Officer Botha in the Pistorius matter and we would like detectives to change to an adequate standard" she added
