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'Women in SA continue to face poverty and inequality'
Cape Argus
|August 07, 2025
AS SOUTH Africa commemorates Women’s Month, ANC veteran Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says women continue to bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, and that there should be equal opportunities for women and men.
Dlamini-Zuma said this is because the system is still working against women despite constitutional protections and legislative efforts.
She was speaking during her visit to the Independent Media newsroom on Tuesday.
Every year, in August, South Africa celebrates Women’s Month to pay tribute to the more than 20000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on August 9, 1956, in protest against the extension of the pass laws to women.
During Women’s Month, South Africa celebrates women as active agents of change and social transformation. The commemoration also allows the country to take stock of achievements and challenges that remain while mobilising support for the further development of women.
This story is from the August 07, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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