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Dr. Naledi Pandor speaks during a meeting
Nelson Mandela Foundation Chairperson Dr. Naledi Pandor says women in South Africa face many challenges that need to be addressed.
Pandor further highlighted that women do not enjoy access to economic power.
She says the country needs more female entrepreneurs to provide support to women who wish to be in business.
Pandor and her daughter were reflecting on the challenges that women still face even after the Women’s March on 9 August 1956.
Pandor elaborates, “I think sadly, African women, Black women in particular, continue to face the triple challenges that we used to speak of when we were theorising the economics of apartheid: that they are Black, they are without skills, they are without high-level education, and they live primarily in rural areas. Those triple challenges impact negatively on women. I speak from the perspective of business as an entrepreneur; there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to support women who are building businesses.”
