Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, says empowering women is central to achieving gender parity and curbing gender-based violence. <\/p>\n
The Minister said this when she participated in the debate on gender-based violence in the National Assembly on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The debate took place on the eve of government\u2019s launch of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign by Deputy President David Mabuza at the Union Buildings. <\/p>\n
\u201cSixteen Days of Activism and No Violence against Women and Children campaign commences [on] 25 November, and the theme for this year is \u2018Economic justice for a non-violent, non-sexist South Africa\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe theme\u2026 is timely and relevant because women\u2019s economic achievement is integral to the achievement of gender equality, and the eradication of gender-based violence and femicide and building a non-sexist South Africa. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt releases women who get stuck in relationships that don\u2019t work\u2026\u201d said Nkoana-Mashabane. <\/p>\n
The Minister said economic empowerment recognises that there is link between women who find themselves in abusive situations and their financial positions. <\/p>\n
She emphasised the importance of empowering women through education and for them to gain financial independence and in turn, enabling them to participate in the well-being of society, particularly now as government implements the economic recovery plan. <\/p>\n
Calls for men to stand up against gender-based violence<\/strong> <\/p>\n Nkoana-Mashabane said women remain the most affected by unemployment, poverty, homelessness and hunger. <\/p>\n \u201cWe mark the 16 Days campaign not only to raise awareness about the negative impact of violence that has beset women and children, but most importantly, to take decisive steps against the abuse of women and children because they have suffered this abuse from men who are inferior. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are making a call for real men to stand up so that we can work together. The work starts here in Parliament. <\/p>\n \u201cLet us say no to violence against women and children, no to rape, no to human trafficking, particularly children. <\/p>\n \u201cLet us ensure that the perpetrators of this crime are punished by our courts. Say no against the so-called corrective rape against our LGBTQI+. <\/p>\n \u201cThe empowerment of women cannot be achieved without the socio-economic transformation of society to accelerate socio-economic growth and overcome the challenges that women have faced over the years and have been struggling for freedom.\u201d \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, says empowering women is central to achieving gender parity and curbing gender-based violence. The Minister said this when she participated in the debate on gender-based violence in the National Assembly on Tuesday. The debate took place on the eve of government\u2019s launch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-173180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}