NUMSA GENDER POLITICAL SCHOOL 06 October 2011
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) will be holding its National Gender Political School as from TODAY Thursday 6 October 2011 –until- Sunday 9 October 2011, Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng province.
The Gender School will be attended by 250 delegates drawn from the lower structures of the union across the country and it will be held under the strategic theme “Taking gender struggles to the forefront”.
This School takes place against the backdrop of depressing socio-economic challenges faced by women in the workplace, communities and in their families.
The economy of our country is still dominated by a few white males and black women are located at the bottom rungs of our economy. The domestic labour performed by women is unpaid and women are still being used to reproduce cheap labour and continue to endure sexual harassment and domestic abuse in our society.
This School provides a platform towards building a strong working class women’s movement, rooted amongst poor urban and rural women to advance a radical and revolutionary program that places the oppression of women at centre of its agenda and programme.
Our struggles for an alternative economic trajectory that seeks to place human and societal needs ahead of profit making must also address decades of women’s oppression by patriarchy and the gender insensitive capitalist system.
The NUMSA Deputy General Secretary KARL CLOETE will officially open the School. There will also be messages of support from the ANCWL, COSATU 2nd Deputy President ZINGISWA LOSI and SACP Central Committee Member CHARLES SETSUBI.
The details of the School are as follows:
DATE: Thursday 6 October2011
TIME: 10H00 am
VENUE: Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre, 155 Cnr Bree and Gerard Sekota Streets, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng province.
Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report.
Contact:
Castro Ngobese, National Spokesperson – 073 299 1595
Or
Duduzile Ngcobo, National Gender Coordinator– 074 372 5685
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