SAWID Forum
SAWID is an independent South
African Women's Platform committed to hearing the voice of every woman and to
improving the status of women by engaging national government, the private
sector, civil society, (including non-governmental organisations,
community-based organisations, faith-based organisations and donors) in
partnership to shape community, provincial and continental agendas. The SAWID
forum is impartial and not-for-profit and is tied to no party-political
interests.
South African Women in Dialogue
(SAWID) was founded by a forum of around 1000 women, drawn from all sectors of
South African society, who met at the University of Pretoria in July 2003. They
had been convened by a Steering Committee of volunteers, facilitated by Mrs.
Zanele Mbeki, spouse of the President of the Republic of South Africa.
On the the 8th of June 2014 Ms
Modjadji Alidia Seabi (Former Chairperson of Tshwane YSAWID) came to Revival
Baptist Church to introduce the forum and an open dialogue with 30 ladies in
our church.
Issues discussed:
1. Personality development
2. Women's human rights
3. Participation of women in
leadership
4. Why economic empowerment of
women
5. Engaging boys and men to end
discrimination against women and girls
It was nice to engage with one
another with honesty, empathy and respect for our differences and opinions.
Addressing the specific concerns of young women in areas of personal
development, economic participation, and the strengthening of their democratic
knowledge was empowering and enlightening.
In hope to help the young women in
our church, identify and recognize their own individual identities and roles in
the society, community but kingdom of God at large, believing that this will
outline the need to peruse what their purposes on earth are to reach success in
their different areas of expertise, their lives, our nation and world at large
in God's will.
We eagerly look forward to the
next open dialogue meeting and we thank our Ma moruti for hooking us up, lol :)
