Socialist On Board- Battle Of Ideas

By S'yabonga `Kotini' Nene.

In the context where one has just celebrated women’s day I think it becomes more pivotal and imperative that we engage on introspection where amongst other things we will assess and evaluate our attitude and role towards gender equality and women emancipation. The harsh reality is some of us continue to pollute the society by propagating views which seek to say men and women are and will never be equal to men. One needs to put this into perspective, when oppression came in, it was introduced through pseudo realities that white is better than black and men is better than women. As young people of today we should remain implacably and vehemently oppose to such while cherishing the impeccable character demonstrated by young people prior democratic breakthrough (1994) in their fight for freedom. I think it is a common course that no-one wants to regress the strides they had made and in the light of that we remain charged with the gigantic responsibility not only to emulate what they did but to take the struggle forward. Young people located in tertiary institution have a tremendous task of making sure that when they go back home programmes that seek to uplift the society in general and young people in particular are initiated, coordinated and facilitated by them...


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