In celebration of Women’s Month, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) in collaboration with Kruger National Park will host a seminar on women empowerment in the workplace. This seminar seeks to highlight the crucial role of women in leadership within the workplace and to create a platform for dialogue, networking, and professional development among women in management positions.
The seminar is also informed by the realisation that 31 years since the advent of democracy, women continue to face an uphill battle to achieve parity with men in economic empowerment, particularly within the workplace—an essential avenue for advancing their professional standing. This seminar does not downplay the significant strides made towards the eradication of gender discriminatory legislation, but rather seeks to address the entrenched barriers of patriarchal structures, which continue unabated in many professional environments.
Key objectives of the seminar are:
- empowering women in leadership roles with essential knowledge that fosters gender transformation and inclusion;
- providing a platform for sharing barriers and strategies for overcoming challenges experienced by women in the workplace;
- discussing and creating empowering mechanisms that are meant to mainstream institutional policies for various sectors;
- stimulating a collaborative commitment for women leaders across sectors to act on reporting gender inequality and discrimination;
- providing the stakeholders with existing critical frameworks for immediate consideration by critical decision makers in the workplace to foster equality and diversity.
Members of the media are invited to attend the seminar launch, which will be held as follows:
Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 08h00–16h00
Venue: Skukuza - Nombolo Mdhluli Conference
RSVP:
Javu Baloyi
E-mail: javu@cge.org.za
Mikateko Shipalana
E-mail: media@cge.org.za
Laura Mukwevho
E-mail: lauramukwevho@sanparks.org
Khensile Moriri
E-mail: khensilemoriri@sanparks.org
Enquiries:
Javu Baloyi
Spokesperson, Commission for Gender Equality
Cell: 083 557 3306
Rey Thakhuli
Spokesperson, Kruger National Park
Cell: 073 373 4999
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