Useful Links

African Union

Beijing Platform For Action

www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform

Millennium Development Goals

www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Women’s Charter 1954

www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/women

Women’s Charter for Effective Equality 1994

www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/policy/womchart.htm

Urban Renewal Program

www.dplg.gov.za/html/progs/urp.htm

Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Strategy

Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Strategy

Women in South Africa

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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