Monday is International Women’s Day, which is aimed at celebrating the achievements of women across the globe.
This year’s theme is “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World.”
The Motsepe Foundation will be hosting the 5th annual Gender Equality, Wellness and Leadership Summit as part of the celebrations.
Co-founder and CEO Motsepe Foundation, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe, says the day is about reminding all about the importance of gender equality.
“And we all need to lobby governments as well as business sectors to ensure this is we all understand how important this is because a country that doesn’t tap into its full human resources cannot be competitive and will not do well in terms of its GDP,” says Moloi-Motsepe.
Motsepe Foundation to host the Gender Equality, Wellness and Leadership Summit:
On Sunday, Unisa’s first female principal and vice-chancellor, Professor Puleng Lenkabula said South Africa need to tackle gender inequalities in spaces of the work space and in family relations to realise the future the country hopes for.
She was addressing the 12th Annual International Women’s Day Event, hosted by the institution and the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.
Professor Lenkabula said society must ensure that gender-based victims overcome the lasting negative effects of working from home imposed by the lockdown regulations.
Within the first week of the lockdown, the police in South Africa reported receiving 2 300 calls for help related to gender-based violence. By mid-June 2020, 21 women and children had been killed by intimate partners in the country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared the scourge a second pandemic.
Thabo Mbeki Foundation and UNISA commemorate International Women’s Day, Part 1
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