In parliament, the speaker, the deputy speaker being women, and at provincial level and local level we're talking about a third or more women in all those structures. So, on that score I think there is a lot to celebrate. But women's gains haven't translated into the business arena. When it comes to the chief executives in large corporations in South Africa you can count the women on the fingers of one hand and not even use all of those. So government again, even in that arena of work, is doing much better.
Poverty still wears a feminine face in South Africa.
It's women who have to deal with poverty in the sense the absence of facilities, good health care, lack of jobs, all that. In civil society, crimes against women are not abating in the same way that general violent crime are having a downward trend. We have the legislators. We have the institutions. We have all the right mechanisms.