“Women are precious creations with huge potential”

The position of women in areas relating to safety and security, consumer rights, financial management, health, entrepreneurship, morality, leadership, self-development and talent management were highlighted during a women’s seminar as part of celebrating Women’s Month at the Musina show grounds last Wendesday.

When addressing the invited guests and women employees from Musina Municipality, Cllr Sewane Kaunda started by quoting from Proverbs 31:10. Who can find an excellent woman? She is far more precious than jewels.

He said that, based on the above scripture, he wanted to emphasise that women were precious creations of God and they had great potential in life. Men should never undermine them, he added.
“In South Africa, and Musina in particular, women have for decades played a critical role in the struggle for liberation. They have also contributed immensely in the process of building a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa,” Kaunda added.

He said that the democratic government had paved the way for women to have equal opportunities with men. “The country has pilots and women in senior positions in the military and the police. We have women construction workers building roads and dams. There are women bus and train drivers, and leading women entrepreneurs, including some who are with us here today. Government also promotes commercial farming and the active participation of women in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors.”

One of the women who attended the seminar is Lillian Muleya, who thanked the municipality for organizing the event. “We received valuable information and hope that it will become an annual event,” she said.

Date:19 August 2015

By: News Correspondent

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