Women’s Priorities

Gauteng

Mobilising and strengthening the Women’s Movement and resuscitating provincial structures.
Gathering, protecting and distributing Women’s Collective Legacy through Women’s Stories

Access to primary
Healthcare

Tackling Corruption

Mpumalanga

Land:
Training of women on land and agriculture

Economy:
Access to funding from Landbank, IDC, NEF, MEGA, DTI and Small Business Enterprise

Persons living with Disability and Albinism:
Monitoring and Evaluation of government services available for PWD and Albinism

Meeting with Premier of Mpumalanga and march to Mpumalanga Legislature to submit a memorandum of issues affecting women

Western Cape

Mobilising and strengthening the Women’s Movement and resuscitating provincial structures
Reconnecting youth with the stories of strong women, and reclaiming the stories and legacies of women
Safe spaces for men and women to deal with hurts of the past and heal. Healing and training courses for youth. Programmes for men to heal separately from women
Mass action against drugs

Free State

More dialogues on women abuse and roadshows about
empowerment programmes for women

Skills development
programmes
Income generating projects, rural industrialisation, funding, and financial management. Policy documents in all languages.

Human rights and legal aid, including inheritance and estates, wellness, and victim empowerment services

North West

Social Cohesion and empowerment of women to minimise violence and teen pregnancy
Land rights, Socio-economic advancement and 50/50 representation
Quarterly meetings per district, resuscitate provincial structures and the network on violence against women and children
Inclusion of Bahumagadi and LGBTI

Eastern Cape

Focused on 3 areas:
Women in Politics, Women in the Economy, and Women in Society Prioritise education and conduct healing sessions

M and E on services provided to women and persons living with disability

Engage the Department of Justice over unresolved cases of violence against women
Collaborate with local government to develop programmes on women in the fishing industry

KwaZulu-Natal

A review of the Education system and a need for more healing sessions and inter-generational dialogue
A focus on gender based violence, family support and poverty eradication initiatives
Economic empowerment, women’s right to access land
Advocating for rights of the LGBTI community and persons living with disabilities

Limpopo

Family Context Challenges, including support groups for divorced women, single mothers and even married women

Lack of Education on the following:
Marriages, Education on Marriages like Pre-Marital Counselling. (Problems & Divorce) Parenting Skills, and Child/parent relationship and skills Sex, Divorce: social pressure & discrimination (gossip and judgment), loneliness, that leads to depression.

How to discipline the kid’s Technology; Blessers & Blessees, Single parenting, Absent Fathers, Education for Girlchild, Campaigns on violence and sexual abuse, Women protecting their partners over their children on sexual abuse. HIV/Aids workshops
Inequalities & Discrimination on opportunities like at the workplace, Tenders, etc

Mismanagement of grants
Child Support Grants: The money is not used for the benefit of the child

Foster Grant: Foster parents use the money for their personal use. Monitor proper use of all grants

Poverty Alleviation Programme
Promote Independency in Women. Provide tools and skills development programmes for women, including organic vegetable gardens. Access information to Career and Self Development

Northern Cape

Community dialogue on boy children to address the spate of angry boys who are resorting to violence. Continuous dialogues, with sufficient time, to dissect the social illness in the society

Women are not supporting each other, and there is little communication between parents and the girl child. Mothers pay more attention to girls than boys, treating them differently.

Drugs are rife in communities, and foreign national are selling drugs. Communities are aware of the drug dealers and the abuse of women but are not doing anything

Children to learn their mother tongue and culture, as children can’t express themselves in their Mother tongue and have lost their culture, and people are unable to reprimand the children in the streets for misbehaving.

Accessible transport for disabled children is a challenge

Women’s rights should be practiced and acknowledged everywhere i.e. workplace and churches, but women are looking for God in all the wrong places i.e. tent churches, mushrooming churches, and responding to pressure by social media to focus on the external (as women we need to wear fake hair, make-up etc.)

High levels of rape, and difficulty to report a case in a home where the perpetrator is the breadwinner

There is a need for femicide courts, and counseling for rape victims

The BEE Policy should be fully implemented and a review of the financial assistance to women in business

Assistance to women in business is difficult to access or insufficient, and communities are not supporting women businesses.

There is a need to understand and utilize our legislations fully; to review the constitution to give Chapter 9 institutions more muscle, allowing bodies such as the CGE to penalise non-performing institutions as well as to have legal recourse and to hold government and officials accountable.

Officials who are implementers of legislation should be held accountable and there needs to be punitive sanctions.