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As a precursor, the plight of rural women must therefore be located within the broader context of our developmental state, a state that still contends with the challenges of inherited poverty, a state that recognises its citizens as the apex priority of its developmental agenda.
Hon members, it is precisely due to the remaining effects of this painful past that the NDP has placed rural women at the forefront of its development agenda. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The NDP is not only South Africa’s 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 74 of 157 blueprint for growth and development.
The plan radically challenges the status quo of economic stagnation.
It radically challenges social apathy and generational poverty, including all factors that inhibit growth and development in South Africa. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
If we look at the NDP within this broader context, it is clear that this plan is a radical social contract for transformation, capturing the hopes and dreams of ordinary South Africans across the board.
The plan makes bold socioeconomic commitments to uproot abject poverty, unemployment, and economic exclusion.
If effectively galvanised, the NDP can become the most viable mechanism for transforming South Africa into a cohesive and economically inclusive society. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
After being approved by Cabinet in 2012, the plan was also endorsed across all the key sectors and spheres of influence in the country.
This new growth path has therefore been affirmed as the most feasible and the most appropriate development tool for this phase of our transition.
It therefore follows that the NDP must be recognised as South Africa’s comprehensive strategic plan for broad-based development, having convincingly mobilised the country around a clear vision for radical transformation. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The NDP regards a successful land reform programme as a precursor to the development of an inclusive rural economy.
It seeks to achieve this through increased direct and indirect jobs in the agriculture, agro-processing, and related sectors.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 75 of 157 It also calls for the activation of rural economies through improved infrastructure, services to small and micro farmers and investments in tourism. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It also further calls for the review of land tenure and the creation of land tenure security for communal farmers, especially women, in order to create jobs in agriculture and related sectors by 2030.
Furthermore, the NDP dictates that gender should not be an obstacle to accessing land.
This is also in line with the regional protocol on gender and development.
The NDP also proposes a land reform model which, in summary, seeks to speed up the process of access to and ownership of land by black people. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Parliament recognises these policy priorities as critical imperatives and has begun to align itself at a macro level to the overarching vision of the NDP.
After conferring extensively at the beginning of the Fifth Parliament, a unanimous decision was taken to oversee the implementation of the NDP as the central theme for the Fifth Parliament. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
As government’s operational strategy that is more medium term, the plan prioritises rural development, land reform, and food security as part and parcel of its key focus areas.
These are some of the key medium-term priorities that the NCOP must continue to prioritise, as committed in its strategic plan.
In order to catalyse implementation, a radical shift is now necessary to meaningfully align the NDP to the role of the NCOP in advancing its 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 76 of 157 implementation. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
As conferred by the Constitution, the NCOP represents provinces so as to ensure that provincial interests are taken into account in the national sphere of government.
It does this mainly by participating in the national legislative process and by providing a forum for public consideration of the issues affecting provinces.
In order for the NCOP to be more effective, it must locate its role within the broader context of its capability to effect far- reaching and resilient policy changes. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Furthermore, the impact of such resilient policy changes must be continually monitored and the impact regularly evaluated, in order to ensure that we stay on course to achieve the goals set out in the plan.
In further crystallising the role of the NCOP to advance the NDP agenda, it is necessary that we deepen our focus into the role of committees and how they are positioned to accelerate implementation. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In line with the Constitution, parliamentary committees are central to exercising oversight by means of, amongst others, actively involving the public and public representatives with a clear focus on transparent government and accelerated transformation.
Through the strategic utilisation of the oversight and accountability functions conferred on them, committees must begin to effect radical social transformation. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This is the kind of transformation that communities must be able to recognise and experience at local level.
This is the kind of transformation that 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 77 of 157 must eradicate abject poverty and create opportunities.
Furthermore, as the engine rooms of Parliament’s institutional drive, the NCOP committees must position themselves to give radical, political and administrative impetus to the NDP. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In addition, Parliament’s strategic plan has already committed itself to effecting changes to the programme of Parliament so as to allow for greater effectiveness of processes, especially the requirements of oversight and public involvement.
Within this broader context, we must begin to see committees being more innovative in exercising their oversight functions. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
They must be equally decisive and radical in their approach, while taking precautions to centre their approach on the precepts of co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations.
Hon Chairperson, there is also an increasing recognition that the legislature, through a sound understanding of South Africa’s fiscal policy and economic development, has an important role to play in overseeing the implementation of the NDP. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In recognising that the objectives of the NDP can only be realised through adequate budgetary and resource allocation, it must follow that the NCOP’s NDP oversight drive be anchored within government’s fiscal framework.
This oversight drive must be target based with clear measures and markers so as to allow for seamless monitoring by 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 78 of 157 committees. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This target-based process will enable both the executive and the legislative sector to work on a commonly accepted road map for the country’s development.
There are however some remaining challenges.
The implementation of legislation has been weak due to a lack of enforcement mechanisms, especially in land tenure.
For example, despite the Extension of Security of Tenure Act’s protective provisions, in practice, women’s security of tenure is subject to the presence of a male partner. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
As a result, in some cases, women get evicted when their partners are evicted following retrenchment or dismissal or when they die.
Although the department has encouraged participation of women in land reform projects, there has been no concerted effort to mainstream women’s issues in land reform projects. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The existence of patriarchal tendencies and the continued recognition of customary law and traditional authority in land administration tend to disadvantage women and undermine women’s access to land and property.
Women in rural areas can still lose rights and access to land after divorce or the death of their husbands. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is now incumbent on us as this leadership collective to continue to engage in the battle of ideas so as to unlock an effective oversight process to activate rural economies and deal with the remaining challenges.
For as long as the material conditions of rural women have not been significantly changed, the cause to 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 79 of 157 advance the national democratic revolution in this respect remains valid. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
For as long as women in rural areas are unable to transition into a better quality of life, the cause of the national democratic revolution must remain undeterred.
I thank you.
Ms B A ENGELBRECHT: Hon Chair, according to the World Bank, in 2014, our rural population stood at almost 20 million people.
This is 40% of our South African population, and 78% of them are women.
This equates to 15,2 million rural women. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This equates to 15,2 million rural women.
These are the women living in rural communities who have multiple roles in their communities as farmers, mothers, homemakers, and caregivers and who are often exposed to extreme poverty and have traditionally been regarded as people who belong at home.
They are lagging behind the rest of the country in terms of economic growth and potential.
These are the women that have been left behind. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These are the women that have been left behind.
Society and culture define women’s social role primarily as the caregivers and caretakers and in relation to their reproductive function.
In contrast, men are regarded as the breadwinners and are defined by their productive role.
These women are left behind to raise families when many of their husbands go to look for work in urban areas. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These women are isolated and left behind when it comes to economic opportunities and social services such as health, sanitation, and education.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 80 of 157 A women’s position in society is determined both by her access to paid employment and the status accorded to her reproductive and domestic role.
Large proportions of rural households are female headed and are dependent on women’s ability to access opportunities and provide for the household. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
They face immense challenges such as poor quality and limited access to education, lack of access to water for both household use and agricultural development, low literacy and low skills levels and the lack of technical know-how as compared to women in urban areas, poor access to infrastructure and services where roads are inaccessible, hampering their economic opportunities, and municipal services such as electricity and adequate sanitation are mostly absent, increasing exposure to risks related to natural disasters, environmental changes, and increasing occupational and health risks. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These things all impact on rural women’s ability to participate and contribute economically.
In largely rural provinces such as the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Mpumalanga, hunger and food insecurity are also very real threats and severely constrain human and economic potential.
The provinces with the highest percentages of rural areas are Limpopo at 78%, KwaZulu-Natal at 66%, and the Eastern Cape at 63%.
In the Eastern Cape, 845 000 households do not have access to toilets. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
A total of 1,1 million households in KwaZulu-Natal and 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 81 of 157 1,2 million households in Limpopo are without toilets.
This affects women’s privacy and their dignity.
In the Eastern Cape 442 000, households do not have access to piped water.
In KwaZulu-Natal 418 000 and in Limpopo 321 000 households are without piped water.
In the Eastern Cape, 206 000 households are without any access to electricity, 324 000 households in KwaZulu-Natal, and 101 000 in Limpopo. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This makes life hard, exceptionally hard, for these women.
With the many roles and responsibilities within social structures goes the prevailing belief that women’s contributions to the sustainability of the family are much less valuable than that of men.
This is why rural women are not only poorer in society as a whole but also in their own families, and this explains why their level, and kind, of poverty is experienced differently and more intensely than that of men. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Women invariably have unequal rights in family structures, as well as unequal access to family resources, such as land and livestock.
Geisler Hansen puts it like this: As long as men control productive resources – land, labour, tools, credit, and housing – women’s prospects are likely to differ from men’s, the more so under conditions of economic pressure.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 82 of 157 Rural areas account for 80% of land yet are home to around 40% of the population. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Therefore, rural development is critical to reduce poverty and to improve the general wellbeing of our rural people.
For the rural women left behind, the existing socioeconomic rights, as guaranteed in the Constitution, remain inaccessible, resulting in the perpetuation and increase of poverty.
For them, the constitutional guarantees of equality and nondiscrimination remain theoretical rights that make no difference to their struggle for survival. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The Constitution of South Africa guarantees the delivery of socioeconomic rights.
These include access to adequate housing, the right of access to health care, sufficient food and water, and social security.
This places a constitutional obligation on government to take action to ensure such access for our rural women.
Our rural women have been condemned to a world without freedom.
They have been sentenced to a world without fairness, and they have been sentenced to a world without opportunity. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is our responsibility to change that.
We, as the guardians of this Constitution, must realise that their future is in our hands.
I thank you.
Ms M MOKOTLA (Free State): Hon Chairperson of the NCOP, hon Deputy Ministers present here today, MECs from different provinces, hon 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 83 of 157 members and the House at large, I greet you. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Hon Chairperson, I believe that it is proper today to first pay tribute to the greatest man that ever lived and was born in October, a man who surrendered his very being to the people, a man whose ideals of freedom, human dignity, and a nonracial respect for all people can never perish.
I salute Comrade Oliver Tambo.
[Applause.] | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
I salute Comrade Oliver Tambo.
[Applause.]
In 2015, during the celebration of International Day of Rural Women, the secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon had this to say: To do better for the rural women over the next 15 years, we must build on the lessons learned during the MDG implementation.
Extreme poverty is largely a rural phenomenon. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Extreme poverty is largely a rural phenomenon.
We must build resilient social protection systems, labor and product markets, governance institutions and civil society organizations so that rural women can both contribute to and benefit from sustainable development.
Hon Chairperson, the African Development Bank Gender Equality Index measures gender equality across three separate dimensions, namely equality in economic opportunities, equality in human development, and equality in law and institutions. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In all these three dimensions, women bear the brunt of being marginalised, even though they spend more time than men caring for the wellbeing of their families and communities in terms of education, health, and nutrition.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 84 of 157 All African countries recognise the principle of nondiscrimination in their constitutions and all except the two have signed the international convention prohibiting discrimination against women. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa is a guarantee of the rights of women to social and political equality.
Despite all these, women are still being treated as second-class citizens not just in Africa but all over the world.
The second Sustainable Development Goal says, “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”.
For this goal to be successfully implemented, the following must first be realised. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls must be realised.
Rural women’s ownership of land must be accelerated as it is crucial to build resilience to climate change and economic constraints.
It facilitates their access to credit and microfinance services.
They must enjoy equal access to quality education, economic resources, and political participation.
More resources must be made available for the poor.
There should be rural infrastructure development enhancement and access to services. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Discrimination by institutions against rural women and intellectual and property rights must be dealt with effectively to level the playing field.
However, in South Africa, since the dawn of democracy, we have made strides in as far as the rights of women are protected, and the following laws bear witness to that.
The Domestic Violence Act, 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 85 of 157 Act 116 of 1998, protects rural women and women who live under customary law, even people who are cohabiting. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This is a crucial piece of legislation, since studies indicate that female victims of domestic violence incur a greater risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/Aids.
The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act that came into force in 2000 recognises all customary marriages that were valid under customary law, but, in this instance, both parties are equal, and the wife has an equal share in the assets and even the debts. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, Act 92 of 1996, recognises women’s reproductive health rights and prevents the sometimes-fatal consequences of illegal abortions.
The Maintenance Act, Act 99 of 1998, gives the courts the power to automatically deduct maintenance from a person’s salary or to seize property belonging to nonpaying persons. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In conclusion, allow me to say what International Labour Organisation director-general Guy Ryder said: Let’s work together to achieve genuine gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work.
Decent work for women brings decent lives for all. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Finally, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reaffirms the universal consensus on the crucial importance of gender equality and 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 86 of 157 its contribution to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs – more jobs and quality jobs for women, universal social protection, and measures to recognise, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care and household work which are indispensable to delivering on the new transformative sustainable development agenda which aims to reduce poverty, which is Goal 1, and inequality, which is Goal 10, to achieve gender equality and to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, which is Goal 8. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
I thank you.
[Applause.]
Mr M KHAWULA: Hon Chairperson and hon Deputy Minister, of the total population of 51,7 million that South Africa comprises, according to the latest Census report, the majority of her citizens are females at 51,3% and males at 48,7%.
In this report, Statistics SA stipulates that discriminatory practices by gender in South Africa are high.
These discriminatory practices are by social norms, by persistent stereotypes, inequitable access to opportunities, to resources and to power. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These also include high levels of gender– based violence.
Whilst women in general are affected by these practices, rural women are affected the most and suffer the most.
Where the rate of unemployment is high in communities, the rate of unemployed women is higher than that of men.
In the same vein, the rate of unemployed rural women is much higher than that of their urban counterparts. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The report further states that women with 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 87 of 157 tertiary education earn around 82% of what their male counterparts earn.
Women who reside in rural areas and who are between the economically active ages of 15 and 64 comprise 59,3% of that bracket.
For women in rural areas, access to clean water still remains a problem.
Access to quality education for their children still remains a challenge. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Some end up having to transport their children, using unsafe, unreliable modes of transport, to nearby towns and cities for quality education.
Access to electricity remains a challenge.
Good roads and infrastructure still remain a far-fetched pipedream in many rural areas.
Access to good health facilities still remains a challenge in some areas.
Usually, government offices that provide the much-needed services to communities are located in urban areas. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Rural people have to board buses and taxis in order to get to these offices.
These and other challenges constitute the plight of rural women.
When infrastructure development projects are brought to the rural communities, the service providers are urban citizens.
The skilled personnel are urban people.
The well-paying, permanent jobs are occupied by urban people.
The leftover, paying-peanuts, temporary unskilled labour is then allocated to rural people and rural women. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Goal 5 of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development states, “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
At this rate, 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 88 of 157 South Africa will be nowhere near achieving this goal by 2030 under the current regime.
Instead, there will be shifting of goalposts and finger-pointing.
What will rescue this goal is if South Africans vote properly in 2019 and put in place a focused government that cares for the people, like they did in the local government elections of 2016. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Put the IFP in power, and you will see proper delivery.
Another elephant in the room regarding progress in South Africa is corruption that goes unpunished, nepotism, favouritism - Hlaudi at the SA Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, is a case in point – cadre deployment that totally kills progress, for example, SA Airways, SAA, and performance failure that goes unpunished.
Instead, those who fail get moved from one executive position to another. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063 of the African Union is much related to the ideals of Agenda 2063.
It says that, by 2063, Africa will be people-centred and caring and will have full gender equality in all spheres of life.
It goes on to declare that rural women will have access to productive assets, including land, credit inputs, and financial services.
Access to some of these opportunities was achieved even before 1994 in KwaZulu-Natal under the leadership of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
However, post 1994, we are now talking about adequate distribution of resources in order to benefit rural women and rural 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 89 of 157 communities.
Moving to the cities and towns in order for them to access service is not empowerment for rural communities.
I thank you, Chairperson.
[Time expired.]
The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON (Ms M C DIKGALE): Hon Chairperson, hon members, special delegates, ladies and gentlemen, the month of October is a very special month for rural women. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Ke kgwedi ya mathomo ya selemo ya go lema.
Ke kgwedi yeo dipula di thomago go na.
Ke kgwedi ya lethabo go batho le go diphoofolo, gagolo diphala.
Ke nako ya go tswala ga diphala, ebile di kgaramiša diphalana.
Ke ka lebaka leo kgwedi ye e bitšwago Diphalane ka leleme la gešo.
Ge e šetše e retwa go thwe: (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[This is the first summer month.
It is the beginning of the ploughing season.
It starts to rain in October. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It starts to rain in October.
It’s a happy month to the people and the animals, especially the impalas, since it is the breeding season for the impalas.
That is the reason why this month is called Diphalane in my language.
We praise it like this (praise song): Ke Diphalane tša madikaphalana ... Ke Diphalane tša matšema Matšema a rerwa sentsokela.] | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 90 of 157 The notion of Letsema is an African community-centred concept where community members assist one another in time of need, voluntarily and for no fee.
For example, whenever one member needed a shelter, the community would form the Letsema to build that member a house.
The same would happen during harvesting time where some members were unable to go to the farms to harvest.
The Letsema would harvest for the whole community and share the products among themselves. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
At the forefront of the matšema, which is the plural form of “Letsema”, is rural women.
It is therefore not a mere coincidence, but rather symbolic as well, that this week the United Nations marks three observances that reflect women’s key role in development - beginning with International Day of Rural Women on 15 October, World Food Day on 16 October, and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These interconnected issues are more relevant than ever before, as the new Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development has just been adopted by world leaders as the new global road map.
Gender equality and women’s rights and empowerment are cross-cutting throughout the 2030 Agenda, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The goals are intrinsically linked to the lives of women and girls globally, including that of rural women who are vital to its success. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
These particular goals are the goals to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, the goal to end hunger, achieve food security 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 91 of 157 and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, as well as the goal to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
These goals are necessary to have because rural women still face difficulties when trying to access productive and economic resources, such as land. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
They often have limited or no decision- making and protection from violence.
They also play an increasingly important role as farm workers but are the most exploited.
As primary caregivers, some still walk long distances to hew and fetch wood for energy purposes as they cannot afford electricity.
There are many more examples, but to continue listing them will be — as we say it in my language — “go kwa mpa mokhora” [time consuming]. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This is why in her message for the 2015 International Day of Rural Women the United Nations Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka had this to say: Agenda 2030 envisages a ‘world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed’.
We must take every opportunity to ensure that rural women do not lag behind, but rather lead the way. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is therefore important and imperative for us to ask ourselves what we are doing to realise this vision of the Agenda 2030.
Luckily, in South Africa our government has put in place measures to 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 92 of 157 deal with these challenges.
One of them is our own Vision 2030 - the National Development Plan – which proposes a range of measures to advance women’s empowerment. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It proposes, amongst others, that the transformation of the economy should involve active participation and empowerment of women and that the role of women as leaders in all sectors of society should be actively supported.
Our government, the ANC-led government, has moved swiftly to implement this vision.
For example, the government has formally adopted Letsema, or Ilima/Letsema, as one of its socioeconomic growth strategies to assist our people towards their own development. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Participants in Letsema therefore become members, the extended family, as the Letsema or Ilima is made up of family, friends, and neighbours as well as volunteers.
There is no better time than now to encourage programmes such as Letsema.
This is because the world is currently faced with serious food security challenges, and climate change is exacerbating the situation every year.
Rural people are the most affected by this. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Rural people are the most affected by this.
It does not require rocket science to know that to alleviate this food crisis, we need to increase food production.
Therefore, our people should be encouraged to develop a culture of producing food for themselves, including producing vegetables in their backyards, and this is where matšema will be helpful.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 93 of 157 In the South African context, the Ilima/Letsema Programme therefore consists of two dimensions. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The first dimension seeks to maintain and increase the ability of South Africa to meet its household and national food requirements.
This involves meeting these needs from domestic agricultural resources, importing food items that cannot be produced efficiently, and exporting commodities with comparative advantage. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The second dimension aims to eradicate the widespread inequalities and grinding poverty among the majority of households that is manifested by inadequate and unstable food supplies, lack of purchasing power, weak institutional support networks, poor nutrition and inadequate safety nets, weak food emergency management systems, and unemployment. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In addition to this Letsema programme, the government also has the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme, CRDP, which is focused on enabling rural people to take control of their lives, with support from government.
The programme aims to effectively deal with rural poverty through the optimal use and management of natural resources through an integrated, broad-based agrarian transformation and the strategic investment in economic and social infrastructure that will benefit rural communities. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
As part of this Comprehensive Rural Development Programme, the government announced in 2014, through the Ministry of Rural 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 94 of 157 Development and Land Reform, the introduction of the 50/50 policy framework as part of efforts to ensure that farm workers benefit from owning shares in the farms on which they work as well as providing them with security of tenure. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This was followed by the announcement early last year by President Zuma during the state of the nation address that 50 pilot projects testing the 50/50 policy would be rolled out around the country.
One of the first pilot projects that will see workers and farm owners become co-owners of a farming enterprise as part of government’s 50/50 land policy was officially launched in KwaZulu-Natal in August this year.
This land model is a win-win for the farmers and the government. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It aims to secure tenure for farm workers while seeking to transform land ownership patterns in the country and empowering workers to acquire shares in farming enterprises.
However, despite positive steps like this, much more needs to be done.
Parliament in particular must, through its oversight role, ensure that policies like this one are implemented. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
I am saying this because there have been many progressive policies and programmes by government that are deliberately being made to fail by people who are opposed to transformation.
In most instances, this is based on pure greed and selfishness. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 95 of 157 There are also other programmes such as the LandCare Programme, Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme, Casp, and so on, that are geared towards achievement of food security, improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture as well as the goal to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is therefore imperative for us to support these programmes because statistics and empirical evidence such as those contained in the United Nations Women Annual Report of 2015 show that when more women work economies grow.
An increase in female labour force participation or a reduction in the gap between women’s and men’s labour force participation result in faster economic growth. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Evidence from a range of countries shows that increasing the share of household income controlled by women, either through their own earnings or cash transfers, changes spending in ways that benefit children.
Increasing women and girls’ education contributes to higher economic growth. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Increased educational attainment accounts for about 50% of the economic growth in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the past 50 years, of which over half is due to girls having had access to higher levels of education and achieving greater equality in the number of years spent in education between men and women.
However, for the majority of women, significant gains in education have not translated into better labour market outcomes. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
A study using data from 219 countries from 1970 to 2009 found that for every additional year of education for women of reproductive age, child mortality decreased by 9,5%.
It is therefore incumbent upon us ...
Thank you, Chairperson.
[Time expired.]
[Applause.]
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 96 of 157 Ms R MOGOTLANE (Limpopo): Hon Chairperson of the NCOP, Deputy Ministers and MECs present, special delegates, and compatriots, receive heartfelt greetings. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Rural women are the key agents of achieving the transformational economic, environmental, and social changes required for sustainable development.
However, limited access to credit, health care, and education are among the many challenges they face, which are further aggravated by the global food and economic crises and climate change. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Empowering them is the key not only to the wellbeing of individuals, families, and rural communities but also to overall economic productivity, given women’s largest presence in the agricultural workforce countrywide.
I wish to open this address by calling on our people to accept the maxim that says there is dignity in gender equality.
All forms of work give dignity to the worker.
Therefore, unemployment, poverty, and inequality rob people of human dignity. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In the light of the foregoing and pursuant of the South African Constitution, the underlying spirit and purpose of which is to give dignity to South Africans, it’s our responsibility as the representatives of people to implore the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to continue in its effort to actualise this constitutional mandate. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is within this prism that I would like to speak on three topics of women’s empowerment in key areas of service delivery: access to land, the status of women in the labour market, and poverty and inequality.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 97 of 157 Let us discuss land ownership for women in Limpopo.
Land has been recognised as a primary source of wealth, social status, and power throughout history.
It builds the foundation to create shelter, grow food, and harbour economic activities. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It also provides the most significant opportunities in rural areas and is a gradually depleting scarce resource in urban areas.
Access to the right to land is often the condition for other rights such as access to water, other natural resources, and basic services such as sanitation and electricity.
The right that society allows the landholders directly affects the willingness and ability of individuals and businesses to make long- term investments in arable land and housing. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In emerging economies, sustainable development is contingent on the establishment of inclusive access to property rights in land and the security of such rights, thus making access to land and the benefits that come with it more inclusive for women and possibly the one way to overcome economic and social disadvantages.
Margaret Mitchell wrote: The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because is the only thing that lasts. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Turning to the land programme in South Africa, in 1992, the ANC initiated its land policy document which was the first of its kind in South Africa to call for a special process to ensure women’s 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 98 of 157 equal access to land and participation in policy formulation and decision-making.
Moreover, the Reconstruction and Development Programme, RDP, inclusively acknowledged women’s land rights.
Women face specific disabilities in obtaining land. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The land redistribution programme must therefore target women.
Institutions, practices, and laws that discriminate against women’s access to land must be reviewed and brought in line with national policy.
In particular, tenure and matrimonial laws must be revised appropriately.
With regard to the labour market, labour market information for gender analysis is exactly what the term implies - any information about the intangible arena where the supply and demand of labour interact. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This includes information about how people work or search for work, on the system of education and training, on the school-to- work transition, how enterprises engage workers, and the return to labour.
The list is endless.
Inevitably, there are blockages that prevent a perfect union of labour supply and demand. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Discrimination, for example, prevents a perfect match, as does imperfect infrastructure that prevents a person from getting to where the jobs are or imperfect information such that a person does not know where to look for work.
In looking at the gender dimensions of labour force utilisation, the values and movements of the indicators will be analysed to address the following questions: What is the capacity of the economy to 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 99 of 157 utilise female labour in comparison to male labour? | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
What is the historical picture of female labour force participation, and where do we see the biggest changes over time?
What are the main factors that drive change in female labour?
What is the correlation between the female labour force and the level of development in the country?
What are the patterns of labour forces over the lifespan of a woman, and what is the influence of childbearing?
What is the overall effect when youth and adult employment trends move in opposite directions? | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Now, recent evidence of poverty amongst rural women shows the past 25 years have seen significant progress in reducing poverty.
While in 1990 nearly half of the world’s people lived on less than R1,25 a day, this figure dropped to 14% in 2015.
However, poverty reduction remains an immense challenge to government around the country, with approximately 25 million still living in poverty. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Therefore, although gender differences in worldwide poverty rates appear small when ignoring resources allocation within the household, this may not reflect the reality of the extent of gender inequality when it comes to poverty.
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
These words were said by Gandhi.
Margaret Thatcher once wrote, “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
In this day and age, most women show punctuality in what they’re doing, taking into 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 100 of 157 consideration the role played by women deployed in different sectors of government.
As I conclude, the gender gap is growing.
It is less based on numbers alone.
The gap between the number of economically active men and women has slowly been decreasing and evolved into one based more on inequality in the quality of employment. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
The women who choose to enter the labour market are generally highly educated but still face a difficult time in finding work.
For those who do attain work, they are generally segregated in poorly paid, insecure, home based, informal employment, partly as a result of lingering discrimination among employers and partly in response to the female need to combine family responsibilities with paid employment.
As a result, the earning potential of women continues to be well below that of men. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is worth reiterating that the goals of equity and inclusive economic growth cannot be achieved without ensuring women’s full participation in the economy.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
[Applause.]
Ms L HLONGWA-MADLALA (KwaZulu-Natal): Hon Chairperson, hon members and distinguished guests, we are privileged to participate in this Debate on International Day of Rural Women, titled “The road to 2030: Rural women at the forefront of Agenda 2030” when we have just celebrated the 80th birthday of Mama Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela- Mandela, a leader, comrade, mother, struggle icon, and a beacon of hope for our society. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
We want to take this opportunity and declare God’s blessings over her life.
11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 101 of 157 Hon Chairperson, we stand on the shoulders of the giants who have laid a strong foundation for our struggle, and we dare not forget them. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
As we look into the aspirations of Agenda 2030, we remember Lillian Ngoyi, a struggle icon, Wangari Muta Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, Miriam Makeba, affectionately known as Mama Africa, a musician and a political activist, Yaa Asantewaa, queen mother of Ejisu tribe in Ghana, Mkabayi kaJama, regent princess of the Zulus, as well as Queen Manthatisi, to mention just a few. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
All these women fought battles in their different corners in different epochs, but their struggles were about the liberation of Africa, in total, and women, in particular.
History indicates that the liberation of women in South Africa is a long journey in which African women have been leaders and not just beneficiaries. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
It is against this historical background that gender equality occupies a central status in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, particularly in Operation Sukuma Sakhe, which is our service delivery model.
It is a model that encourages participation of all sectors of the community, thus providing a renewed determination in creating a future of equal rights, opportunity, and progress for all. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Rural women, the majority of whom depend on natural resources and agriculture for their livelihoods, make up over a quarter of the total world population.
In developing countries, rural women represent approximately 43% of the agricultural labour force.
They 11 OCTOBER 2016 PAGE: 102 of 157 produce, process, and prepare much of the food available thereby giving them primary responsibility for food security. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
Bearing in mind that 76% of the extremely poor live in rural areas, ensuring rural women’s access to productive agricultural resources contributes to decreasing world hunger and poverty and makes rural women critical for the success of the new Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030.
The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on 15 October 2008. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
This new international day, established by the UN General Assembly in its Resolution 62/136 of 18 December 2007, recognises the following: The critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.
This is the eighth year we are observing the International Rural Women’s Day. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |
A study commissioned by the government of KwaZulu-Natal revealed that the province has the highest gender-based poverty incidence and the second highest level of rural poverty in South Africa.
In other words, the face of poverty in our province is that of rural women. | Financial inclusion | Social Protection Jobs and Economic inclusion | South Africa | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698931528184.pdf | https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/hansard/73646d25-e51e-413e-a171-a661f360f486.pdf |