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Gender Equality a intrinsic and moral duty.


Related to country: South Africa
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News that the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Ministers responsible for gender have made progress in terms of the final draft of the SADC Gender Protocol is great. Despite numerous successes in the advancement of woman, it is starkly obvious that much more must be done to afford woman the full benefits of our freedom and democracy.

Woman are today in 2008 still twice as unlikely to earn the same salary as man doing the same work, woman continue to lag behind in political influence and form a minute portion of business leadership in our country. Adv Bience Gawanas, Joan Gurriras, Inge Zaamwani, Kamwi, Anne Tandeka Gebhard, Gida Sekandi. Pedukeni Ivula Ithana, Adv Esi Chase, Gwen Lister and the like, are but few notable exceptions in Namibia.

H.E Tbabo Mbeki , President of the Republic of South Africa amongst other at his Freedom day address for 2008 has explained the need for the creation of a new breed of South African, one he says that espouses all that is good. No doubt President Mbeki invokes the notion of racial and social harmony, religious tolerance and a society in which all and everyone benefit from the gains of the broader society. It is paramount that we advance this idea of a better African citizen that understands the role and value of our continents woman.

The emphasis on policy change and creation followed by its prudent implementation is the bedrock of concrete and value laden outcomes in the quest to extend equal opportunity for all.

The advancement of woman should be a central value of the youth development fraternity. and thus we should call through our various organisations for the full and speedy adoption of the Protocol and for its subsequent implementation. This is a categorical imperative in Kantian terms, it is our intrinsic duty rather.



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