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Article: More needs to be done to empower rural women.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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Women should contribute to the rural development of South Africa
As we celebrate women's month we need to be conscious about the suffering of our women, young and old.
We need to be aware of the task at hand to make sure that women's emancipation is a reality.
Rural women in South Africa face a number of underdevelopment issues including, high levels of unemployment, a high poverty rate, low levels of education and insufficient provision of basic needs, and their presence is limited in most decision and policymaking structures.
Women in rural areas need to be the primary beneficiaries of government programmes on rural development, ...