Welcome to the South African Women in Dialogue website

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”

“We, the women of South Africa, stand together for women’s participation on issues of national, regional, continental and international importance. Through our dialogues, we seek to establish a common agenda for the development of women and to ensure that women’s views are taken into consideration whenever decisions are taken on all issues that impact on our lives…”

The SAWID forum was initiated to provide a platform for ongoing dialogue.

India Brazil South Africa Women’s Forum Report
by Marthe Muller
The mission of the IBSA Women’s Forum is to facilitate joint effort and collaboration by the three countries in the field of women’s development in promoting strategies for gender equality and accelerated poverty eradication in order to transform women’s lives.

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We women have been marching a long time to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and end the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding injustice, war, conquest and violence. Our feminist struggles and those of our foremothers on every continent have forged new freedoms for us, our daughters and sons, and all the young girls and boys who will walk the earth after us.

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As women, citizens of South Africa, we are here to claim our rights. We want recognition and respect for the work we do in the home, in the workplace and in the community. We claim full and equal participation in the creation of a non-sexist, non-racist democratic society. We cannot march on one leg or clap with one hand. South Africa is poorer politically, economically, and socially for having prevented more than half of its people from fully contributing to its development.

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