CSW Column 1

Maseru, 10 June: The third annual SADC Gender Protocol@Work Summit started yesterday at the Maseru Sun Hotel, with a resounding call and response from speakers and participants chanting this year’s theme, “Gender equality now and post 2015! Yes we must!”

Gaborone, 17 August: The SADC Gender Protocol summits came tonight in Gaborone. The event brought together participants from across the SADC region.

Gaborone, 17 August: Today is SADC Day – the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Southern African Development Community to fight apartheid, and now to fight for a better life for the people of this region.

Port-Louis, 25 juin: Ayant comme plateforme régionale de lancement le Sommet national de Gender Links de 2014, le programme de Zezi Vre Zom (ZVZ), initié par l’Institut Cardinal Jean Margéot Á  Maurice (ICJM), fait son chemin dans beaucoup de pays. Piloté par Jean-Max Appanah, ce programme écrit par le père Jean Claude Veder, a remporté le premier prix dans la catégorie Organisation confessionnelle l’an dernier lors de ce Sommet. Ce qui lui a conféré une plus grande visibilité, lui permettant de mieux s’exporter.

Quatre-Bornes, 24 juin : C’est au cours d’une soirée très animée et entrecoupée de chants et de danses qu’a pris fin hier soir au Gold Crest Business Hotel le 5e Sommet national de Gender Links (GL) portant sur l’application du Protocole de la SADC sur le Genre et le Développement.

Dar es Salaam, 15 June: The Tanzania Gender Protocol@Work Summit rewarded drivers of change for their work in advancing gender equality. The event was held in New Africa Hotel in the capital city bringing together media, faith-based and civil society organisations to share good practice in gender mainstreaming.

Maseru, 15 June: There is a Sesotho saying that goes, Mohale o tsoa maroleng (Heroes rise from hardship). Malerato* is one such ‘shero’.

Dar es Salaam, 10 June: The journalists in the country have been requested to expand their coverage on gender issues by reaching those people in the remote areas where there are big problems and the people there have no platform to voice their concerns.

Blantyre, 8 June: Pondering on the theme of the 2015 SADC Gender Protocol ” Now and Post 2015, Yes we must”, one can easily recognise the tone of the theme in calling for unity in the quest for gender equality.

Lusaka, 4 June: Very often when Gender Based Violence (GBV) survivors shy away from the public because they think of themselves as incapable of achieving any skill to improve their lives and become independent.

Gaborone, 2 June: The forth-annual Botswana SADC Protocol@Work summit under the theme “Now and post 2015, Yes We Must!” kicked off on high note on Tuesday 26 May at Tlotlo Hotel in Gaborone.

Whenever there is an election in the country, be it general or local government elections, women make up the majority of the voters, yet they are hardly present in decision making structures. Women bear the brunt of social ills and cast their votes in the hope to improve their lives and those of their families. Women suffer more from water shortages and poor infrastructure, and these problems could be addressed effectively if fellow women held the top positions.