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MAHALA! TAKE ONE! VOL.2 - #16 7-14 AUG 2015
ZUMA HONOURS WOMEN’S MONTH
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by Mapepeza Reporter
THE President will lead the national celebrations in Sasolburg, in the Free State under the theme “Women United in Moving South Africa Forward” where he will also release the first Government Report on the Status of Women in the South African economy.
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President Jacob Zuma has called upon South Africans to honour Mrs Victoria Mxenge as the country marks women's contribution in the struggle for freedom and the development of the country. The 1st of August marked the 30th Anniversary of the passing of the struggle stalwart and women's rights activist. "As we commence the activities of celebrating Women's Month, we call upon all South Africans to remember our struggle stalwart and women's rights activist, Mama Victoria Mxenge who was assassinated in Durban in 1st August 1985. "Mama Mxenge, the wife of the struggle hero and African National Congress (ANC) leader Comrade Griffith Mxenge and an activist and leader in her own right, must be remembered for her fearless and selfless leadership she showed as a member of United Democratic Front (UDF) during struggle against apartheid particularly in KwaZuluNatal,” said President Zuma. Mama Mxenge, a professional lawyer, was part of the defence team in the 1984 Treason Trial, against leaders of the UDF and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court. She was brutally assassinated in front of her children at her Umlazi home in Durban in 1st August 1985. In 2006, Mama Mxenge was posthumously awarded the National Order of Luthuli for her excellent contribution to the field of law and sacrifices made in the fight against apartheid oppression in South Africa. President Zuma has called on youth, particularly young women, to emulate the dedication, resilience and discipline of Mama Mxenge and other fearless heroines that the country would be celebrating during the Women's Day on Sunday, 9th August 2015.
SISTERS UNITED: Sedibeng District Municipality’s Speaker of the Council, Cllr. Busisiwe Modisakeng and Lesedi Local Municipality’s head of special programmes, Ms. J.M ‘MaDlamini’ Melato smile for the camera at Vereeniging City Hall on August 6 at the Women’s Month Launch.
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SEDIBENG DISTRICT CELEBRATES WOMEN’S MONTH
ON Thursday, 6 August 2015, Sedibeng Districts Municipality launched the women’s month programme with different sectors paying tribute to the pioneering women who were part of the struggle for liberation through song. A vintage-style, sixties-inspired gala event was held at the Vereeniging City Hall.
In Sedibeng, women have for many years played a fundamental role in the struggle for liberation. They have also contributed an immense impact in the process of building a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa. Sedibeng District Municipality dedicates a month long programme to celebrate the 13th national anniversary of Woman’s Day
under the National theme “women united in moving South Africa forward”: and the Provincial theme: “Celebrating 60 years of the freedom charter and Women’s role in the struggle for Liberation: Transformation, Modernisation and Re-industrialisation of the Gauteng City Region for women” The vision of the programme is to bridge gaps of the predominant imbalances of health, education, poverty eradication and spiritual wellbeing of woman and ensure that those women are empowered at all levels of society. The objective of the Women’s Day is to promote, facilitate, coordinate and monitor the realisation of the rights of women and children thus allowing them access to developmental opportunities.
The office of the speaker has identified key priorities including encouraging for the promotion and protection of the rights of women. Other priorities include, strengthening of institutional capacity to deliver quality service, and strengthening Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) that would contribute to the empowerment and equality for women and children in Sedibeng. Speaker of the Councillor Busisiwe Modisakeng highlighted that, “by celebrating Women’s Month we remember the sacrifices of untold women who paved the way to our all-inclusive democracy.” “We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental right to freedom, justice and security.”