Thandi is now the one in four women wholl live in

Thandi is now the one in four women who’ll live in absolute
poverty for the rest of her life for having kept a baby she did
not want and couldn’t prevent carrying because of your
government, Mr President.
Thandi is one of the 1 200 young women who got infected with HIV
today despite numerous global efforts available to prevent this
from happening and your failure to have it accessible for Thandi
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Thandi was protesting outside Parliament a few days before your
address Mr President, wanting health rights for her fellow
domestic workers.
Thandi is on nyaope and she will commit suicide before the new
dawn because of depression. Thandi is also landless. Thandi is a
rape victim living with her rapist in the same house because
your police officers lost the docket.
Mr President, Thandi is unemployed and will remain unemployed
for the next decade because you cannot cater for her needs in
your job creation plan that rules out 80% of unemployed young
people for the next decade.
All these social ills and failures of your government reproduce
the kind of violence our country is associated with today and
you have not the slightest idea how to resolve this. Let us
therefore once again tell you what you should consider.
The state must ensure 50% women representation in all spheres
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managerial and leadership responsibility. The state must
introduce compulsory gender education and training for all, from
school level up to the highest level of all public services. The
state must introduce compulsory education on gender justice to
police and establish specialised law enforcement units to deal
with women related crimes.
The time for meaningless frameworks and commissions on the
gender question has long expired, Mr President. Introduce a
special inspectorate in the Department of Labour to monitor,
report and enforce gender parity and equality in the workplace.
Don’t just talk about the decriminalisation of sex work if you
do not mean it. Stop unfair discrimination against lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and intersex,
LGBTQI, individuals when they want to adopt children in need.
Decommodify basic needs such as education and health so that
they are driven by need and not the maximisation of profits.
Your focus on health should be on primary health with a
commitment to the attainment of universal health care coverage,
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programmes, prevention, promotion and education-orientated
health care, protection and promotion of informal traders and
allowing them to trade in the streets of Braamfontein, Sandton,
Hatfield in Pretoria, Sea Point in Cape Town and at taxi ranks
where women vendors get threatened with rape every day.