South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Nqcuka and many other high-level dignitaries attended the launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA (PWMSA) in Bloemfontein.
“The PWMSA is the result of deliberations among the country’s women that without a women’s movement the gains made so far for women’s rights could not be guarantee,” said movement convener Mavivi Myakayaka Manzini.
The new women’s movement launched at a conference attended by hundreds of women, and included notable figures reported to include the Deputy President, Deputy-President of Zimbabwe Joyce Mujuru, the Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Dias Diogo, several South African women ministers, deputy ministers, ambassadors and premiers.
“We hope to emerge from this conference with a founding statement which would clearly say what we are standing for and how we would operate as a movement,” Myakayaka Manzini said.
“It would also be non-party political and non-partisan,” she said.
gsport … for Girls!, recognising the value in many voices supporting the same cause, wishes the PWMSA every success, and hopes to stand with it in our campaign for the upliftment of women.
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