Source: Eurasia Review
President Jacob Zuma has encouraged women to participate actively in the economy as entrepreneurs and as workers depending on their choice and circumstances.
Source: SouthAfrica.info
As a celebration of National Women's Day, Brand South Africa has urged all South Africans to play their part in the development of the country's girl children.
Source: The Guardian
In recent weeks global leaders have increasingly spoken up about the terror that dominates life – and death – in the Central African Republic(CAR). Commitments to provide humanitarian assistance to trapped civilians are at last trickling into the beleaguered country from the UN, the EU, and the UK.
Source: The Guardian
Not a week goes by without reports of fresh fighting in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Violence and destruction have ravaged the Great Lakes region of Africa for two decades, claiming more than 5 million lives. Yet the situation rarely makes the headlines.
Source: iAfrica
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela says 20 years on many women still haven't benefited from democracy.
Source: ENCA
CAPE TOWN - Gender equality is far from being achieved in the workplace -- women are still not remunerated on par with their male colleagues.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
"The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph." Thomas Sankara, African revolutionary.
Source: AllAfrica
Hundreds of underage children on Tuesday in Ogun State embarked on a protest against the ambiguous Section 29 (4b) of the Nigerian constitution, a clause, though devoted to renunciation of citizenship, recognizes women less than 18-years-old to be of full age.
Source: AllAfrica
Johannesburg — President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow, 09 August 2013,lead the country in celebrating 100 years of the contribution of women to the struggle for liberation and also in building a better South Africa.
Source: AllAfrica
In the wake of the recent controversies facing girl-child education in the country, the first female Vice-Chancellor of an African university, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams has stressed the need for quality education for the Nigerian girl.
Source: AllAfrica
Johannesburg — I remember a conversation I had with a woman last week who recounted the harrowing story of the manager of a local restaurant who recently slit the throat of one of the waitresses.
Source: Eye Witness
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says women in South Africa live in constant fear of being violently attacked.
Source: Vanguard
In the wake of the recent controversies facing girl-child education in the country, the first female Vice-Chancellor of an African university, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams has stressed the need for quality education for the Nigerian girl.
Source: The New Dawn
Over 50 Liberian school girls have benefited from a Chevron-sponsored Job Readiness and Placement Information Technology (IT) Program in Montserrado County.
Source: MISA
PRESS RELEASE
If Swazi women are to realize their rights as enshrined in the Constitution, there needs to be a holistic review of the marriage laws in the country.
Source: SouthAfrica.info
Gender-based violence, poverty and joblessness are the three biggest challenges facing women, says Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko.
Source: The New Age
South Africa's culture of gender-based violence, patriarchal dominance and a lack of economic independence for women took centre stage at The New Age Business Briefing on the eve of Women's Day.
Source: AllAfrica
THE Governor of the Karas Region, Bernadus Swartbooi, has expressed concern over the increase in violence against women and children.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
North West Premier Thandi Modise has condemned in the strongest terms the murder of a Coligny woman and called for intensified action against the scourge of gender based violence.
Source: Mail & Guardian
Two decades ago most South African women had no rights. They worked in menial jobs and lived their lives in the private sphere. Apartheid had disenfranchised them. Then, in 1994, things looked up as everyone became equal, at least in theory – the new Constitution said so, after all, and of course everyone could vote.