Do we have to assemble to have a seat at the economic table?
The new kid on the block, Women’s Economic Assembly (WECONA) is billed as a high-level Presidential dialogue on women in the supply chain and the CEO of the country will deliver a keynote address. The dialogue takes place against the backdrop of a staggering unemployment rate amongst black women, and the covid 19 pandemic that has magnified all the existing inequalities living not just through a health crisis but an economic one too.
2021 International Women’s Day, The Struggle Continues
I am anxious for the victims of violence and abuse who don’t report crimes against them in fear of reprisal, intimidation, ridicule and not being believed. Immobilized by the lack of urgency and commitment to eradicating poverty, inequality and unemployment decimating African women…I am stunned by the emergence of sudden funding to combat GBV when these resources have not been made available for the last 25 years in South Africa.