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It is really paining when one look around the posters of various political parties in the streets where men are dominating and we have little number of women representing particular wards.

Women, like other susceptible groups such as children and the disable have been subjected to all sorts of oppression and they continue to be regarded as subjects or half-human.

Various political parties are claiming to award women leadership position but this is not real as it too hard on rhetoric and empty in practice. Number of women who hold position are few and their influence is not satisfactory or as it could be accepted.

We are in a period when the ruling party are in a dialogue to introduce a woman leader, the argument is that by only healing the head and ignore the body you are not addressing the problem. Susan Mahlangu's Department of Women was introduced in 2014 in the new government but we have not seen much regarding the achievement of women especially those in the rural areas.

Feminists in South Africa are mostly urban educated women who put claim that they are representing the views of all women in the country but this is not practical because we only see conferences or conventions hosted in big cities each year without really input of all women in various section of the society.

Women should come together and prioritise unity by crushing political allegiance as it continue to divide them. For instance the women in the Women's League of the ANC only represent women inside the party but undermines the views of other women outside political terrain.

We have seen an achievement such as our own Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma becoming the first head of our continental organisation African Union but the argument may be that women continue to experience conundrums across the continent despite of the woman leading the continent.

Women should also find common issues like what youth are doing by coming together in an attempt to fight for free education, youth in business, youth in leadership.

If this gallant issue is not addressed in time, we will continue to see the so-called "Blessers" and "Sugar-daddy" capitalising onto this unfortunate situation which women today are forced to face.

As the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) we are saying TRAIN THE WOMEN, TRAIN THE NATION!!!

Issued by PAC