Initiatives that are in place to ensure female economic empowerment gcis vuk uzenzele > By gcis vuk uzenzele - 08 January 2021 - 07:00 Women empowerment. Image: Supplied.
Government aims to ensure women empowerment by allocating 40% of the services it needs to women-run businesses. This will also play a part in ending gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF).
According to the Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, several actions have been taken towards building women’s economic empowerment.
“As a country, we have made a commitment to earmark 40% preferential procurement to women-owned businesses nationally.
“A central coordinating mechanism has been curated with a national procurement task team coordinated by the Presidency to ensure that key actions are taken to achieve this target,” the Minister said.