We, a coalition of individual women and women’s organisations from across South
Africa, declare that women have been the majority of the electorate in South Africa
throughout our thirty years of democracy, and account for 55.25% of the 27,672,264
registered voters in the 2024 elections. Women achieved the highest voter turnout,
with almost 2 million more women voting than men, yet there has been a 3% decrease
in women’s representation in the National Assembly, from 46% to 43%
As women, we continue to raise our voices during this watershed moment in the life
of our country. The election result is an opportunity to reset and rejuvenate
governance. The first sentence of South Africa’s Constitution calls on us to recognise
the injustices of our past, arising from Apartheid’s oppression of people who were
Black (‘African, Indian and Coloured’) while privileging those who were white.
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