TONA YA BASADI, BANA LE BATHO BAO BA SA ITEKANELAGO

OFISING YA MOPRESIDENTE: Modulasetulo, e re ke thome ka gore rena mo Ntlong ye le batho kamoka ba Limpopo le Afrika-Borwa ka bophara, re inami?a difahlego t?a rena mo go tlogeleng ke ngwana yo mobotse, yo moswa, gomme ga

bohloko ka phalalo ya madi, e lego Precious Ramabulana. Ka nako ye basadi ba swanet?e go ba ba hlokomelwa le go feta ...

English:

... because it is that month again where we should be fighting against gender-based violence and femicide.

Sepedi:

A moya wa gagwe o robale ka khut?o. Bao ba mmolailego ba swarwe ka ponyo ya leihlo.

English:

To the question, gender auditing is a work that we do together with monitoring and evaluation. The Cabinet adopted the Gender-Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, Evaluation and Auditing Framework commonly known as the GRPBMEA in March this year, which the Department of Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilities leads on. This framework comprises different elements that are clearly very distinct on their own, yet, very interrelated concepts.

The department has already ensured that for the Medium- Term Strategic Framework 2019 to 2024 containing the seven national priorities of the country includes gender- responsive planning, with gender-responsive indicators and targets. The department is also engaging on the processes of ensuring that all departments in the five- year strategic plans and their 2020-21 annual performance plans also include indicators target and interventions that are gender specific.

On issues of auditing, let me say, hon member, that there is a very clear distinction between a traditional financial audits and that of social audit to which gender auditing falls. While both of them are quality audits, one of the key features of the gender audit is that it is very participatory in nature and also very distinct from our monitoring methods as possible. Gender auditing lends itself well to providing the comprehensive picture of progress made by specific department, organisation or entity in respect of gender mainstreaming and strategies we are using to achieve the goal of gender equality. It will establish the baseline of performance and set out

benchmarks for measuring progress based on set criteria and actions.

The process will also enable identification where critical gaps and challenges exist and will make recommendations on ways of addressing these challenges. It, therefore, entails having a set of trained gender audits facilitators to work with individual departments over a few weeks. The process is multifold assessing key policy documents, measure publications programmes, budgets, motoring and evaluation carried out conduct individual interviews of key personnel partners and relevant constituencies of women in the women sector hold participatory workshops with the departments' managers and technical workshops.

Thank you, House Chair. Indeed, Minister, we need to measure anything that counts including gender auditing. Will your engagement with the Auditor-General look into the possibility of auditing financial expenditure of departments and entities on women empowerment? Thank you.

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Thank you, hon member. Through you Chair, the Auditor-General has already shown interest in working with us in making sure that we make departments audit even this part that you have just referred to at the moment. The Auditor-General can play a critical role in undertaking a gender audit during annual auditing processes. Thank you.

Thank you, House Chair. Hon Minister, the Commissioner of Gender Equality has on a number of occasions indicated in our portfolio committee that they require more funding. One of their mandates is about ensuring gender equality, particularly when it comes to the development of gender indicators. Noting, Minister, that you have missed three consecutive meetings of the portfolio committee, and that the joint meeting that was set up last week collapsed under your watch that was supposed to deal with gender-based violence in this country, what is your plan and your department to speak about the issues that are facing women in this country, particularly when it comes to mainstreaming of gender indicators? [Applause.]

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Well, let me say once again to you that, hon member, the meeting was postponed by the Chair because of documents that were not talking to each other. Let me respond directly to your question that we are working on the conclusion of the current National Strategic Plan and working seal on the six-month programme that had been started by the President, where the President went with us to reach out and get, from particularly the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security, JCPS, cluster departments, R1,6 billion in the meantime to reach out to the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide in our country.

We have said, and we repeat, that as a way we will be celebrating the life of Precious that enough is enough. Not only that, but we should be starting right here to say that no more other woman die in the hands of those who should love and protect them. The responsibility of protecting women in this country is not a responsibility of women alone. It is a responsibility of the society including the hon member. We are all have a

responsibility as a society that women are safe and feel safe.

IsiZulu:

Ngiyabonga Mhlonishwa lapho ngaphambili, Ngqongqoshe ayikho into ebuhlungu njengokuthila sizodlala. Lana lento yokuthi kulwisana nokuhlukumezeka kwabantu besifazane. Ngikuthola sekuyibhizinisi okutholakala ukuthi kunama-NGO asedla izimali ngakho ngoba bona bajabulela kuphela ukuthi bazohamba benze lama-16 days of Activism kodwa abantu bebe behlupheka.

Lana eMfuleni kuWadi 108 lapho kunomndeni owashiselwa umuzi, kwafa ingane, nomuntu wesifazane. Icala lavulwa ifayili lakhona latshingwa kanye nenombolo yecala. Ngihambili ngenyaka eyedlule ngomhla wezi-5 ngalivusa lelocala. Ngifuna ukwazi lamacala avulwa njalo okudlwengula nokubulawa kwabantu besifazane ukuthi azoqulwa nini. Yini ngempela esijabulisayo thina Ngqongqoshe ukuthi sizohamba sigumbe lolu suku ekubeni uma uthi uyabheka izinto azenzeki. Sikhathele yilendlela yokudlala ngalento.

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