Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Women In the

PresidencyQuarter 1 (April- June 2015)

22 September 2015

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Introduction• This report assesses work undertaken by the Commission during

the first quarter of the financial year, commencing April to June 2015. The report will highlight achievements against the targets that were set in the APP for this new financial year. An overview of spending patterns and trends will also be highlighted and overall functioning of the organisation.

• The first quarter of the financial year, is characterised with drafting, finalisation and submission of the annual financial statements and draft annual report to AGSA and National Treasury. For the reporting period audit process commences and therefore a brief account of feedback on the audit will also be looked into.

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• The current reporting period marks the beginning of the financial year, it is during this period that a lot of planning takes place by departments and provinces; holding meetings, selecting sectors that will be monitored and engaging with various stakeholders in order to set and agree on collaboration opportunities that will rolled out in the year.

• One of the fundamental matters to be noted from the strategic point of view is the fact that there has been tremendous increase in complaints opened in this quarter and this can be attributed to the new way adopted of undertaking legal clinics. A strategic decision was undertaken during the planning stage to combine legal clinics and outreach, though this decision had to be undertaken due the budget cuts, it has resulted in improvement in the Commission being able to attract new cases.

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Overview of the functioning of the Commission

• It is further important to note that working closely with stakeholders on the ground helps the Commission to plan more targeted interventions when holding legal and outreach clinics.

 • Key issues surfacing across provinces relate still for the

third consecutive time relate to maintenance matters and this information has been further given to the PLU with hope that as the unit monitors progress on the Maintenance Bill, relevant stakeholders dealing with are appraised of the importance of issues highlighted in the Commission’s submission.

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Overview of the functioning of the Organisation

Overview of the function of the Organisation

• Estate and Widowhood issues, have yet again in this quarter escalated however this time an emerging issue is not prevalence of women being chased out of the matrimonial home by family of deceased spouse like in the last quarter, issues in this reporting period relate to the accessibility and processes undertaken by the Master of the High Court. Cases related to gender based violence have also increased in this quarter and this issue seems to be more prevalent in provinces such as NC and NW where there has been an increase in femicide and domestic violence. Whilst Provinces like Gauteng seem to battle more with matters relating to sexual harassment.

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Overview of the functioning of the Organisation

• The work that the Commission undertook on international instruments has given rise to institution carrying international related mandates seeking to engage and request forming partnerships. In this quarter a number of embassies invited the commission to stakeholders’ engagement dinners and OHRC has indicated an interest in collaborating with the Commission on work related to treaty bodies.

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1 Progress on SUB-STRATEGIESTo ensure the creation and implementation of an enabling legislative framework that promotes the attainment of gender equality.

1. To monitor and evaluate the promotion of gender equality and any relevant policies and practices of the public and private sector and report to Parliament

2. To initiate and review for the improvement of the legislative framework in all spheres of government that impact on priority areas of gender equality 3. To conduct periodic performance assessments of priority Ministries, State institutions, Government departments, political parties and the private sector, on the implementation of applicable legislation and policies that impact on gender equality4. To evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the national justice facilities for gender discrimination6. To convene direct dialogues with relevant policy makers at national and provincial level on recommendations to promote gender equality contained in research reports and research activities

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Progress on SO 1

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Progress on SO 1

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Progress on SO 1

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2 SUB-STRATEGIESTo protect and promote gender equality by engaging with relevant stakeholders to educate and raise awareness on issues of gender equality, challenge patriarchal perceptions and stereotypes and take action against infringements of gender rights through the implementation of appropriate redress.

1. To timeously investigate complaints of violations of gender rights and identify appropriate re dress

2. To Initiate investigations of systemic violations of gender rights in the public and private sector and identify appropriate redress3. To develop of a coordinated programme to promote equality4. To initiate interventions for sustainable development and promotion of gender equality by addressing violations in the social cultural political economic security and human rights dimension5. To collaborate with organs of state, civil society and other institutions for the effective development, protection, promotion and attainment of gender equality

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Progress on SO 2

Legal department

The department has overachieved full target for the quarter by approximately 67% on opening of new files having opened 270 files for this reporting period against the target of 180. This is despite the fact that there was a vacancy in the MP office. The department further undertook 34 legal clinics which represents 80% over achievement against the target of 27 clinics per quarter.

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Table represents New Files opened and Nature of Complaints

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Nature of Complaint GP HO LP WC MP NW FS KZN EC NC TOTAL

Gender Discrimination 1 0 2 6 1 1 4 2 0 7 24

Domestic Violence 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 5

Maintenance 1 0 6 1 7 3 4 1 2 5 30

Divorce 4 0 0 3 1 1 3 2 0 3 17

Custody & access 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 2 10

Estate 2 0 4 0 5 4 1 2 2 1 21

Gender Based Violence 1 0 2 2 1 6 0 4 2 0 18

Sexual Harassment/Abuse 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 9

Labour 6 0 1 4 4 2 5 0 3 1 26

Unlawful Eviction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Claim for Restitution 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tradition/ culture 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3

Others (walk-ins/tellephonic) 6 3 8 8 8 7 6 11 43 7 107

Total 28 3 26 26 27 27 25 22 58 28 270

PIE Chart Representing new Cases opened

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As in the previous quarter (Q4) Maintenance cases, labour related cases and gender discrimination categories take the biggest chunk of the above pie chart.

Legal departmentAs in the previous quarter (Q4) Maintenance cases, labour related cases and gender discrimination categories take the biggest chunk of the above pie chart.

The following table represents the files that were brought forward from previous reporting period, new opened files and those closed during the current reporting period. 523 files were brought forward from Q4, 270 new files were opened and the department managed to finalise and close 268. The speed of finalising cases has also slightly increased when compared with the previous quarter (222 files were previously closed and this number has increased to 268 for the current quarter.

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Files handled for the quarter

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Province Brought Forward files

Opened Files Closed files Files pending

Gauteng 26 28 20 34Head Office 78 3 25 56Limpopo 22 26 22 26Western Cape 13 26 23 16Mpumalanga 28 27 23 32North West 36 27 18 45Free State 144 25 17 152Kwa Zulu Natal 101 22 26 97Eastern Cape 50 58 66 42

Northern Cape 25 28 28 25Total 523 270 268 525

HyperlinkA Legal Clinics.doc

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Legal and Outreach Clinics

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Progress on SO 2

Public Education and Information• For this reporting period, majority of work undertaken related to

setting up meetings with relevant stakeholders and coming up with targeted programmes that relate to specific thematic areas identified in the APP. PEI further engaged stakeholders on formalising partnerships and collaborations on areas of common interest and key issues in provinces. In this quarter meetings were held in various provinces with relevant stakeholders and men organisations on women empowerment and women’s human rights. In provinces such as MP, meetings held with the local municipality and men organisations were geared towards establishing a men’s forum.

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Public Education and Information• This forum was launched in June. In other provinces men’s

organisations were engaged in view of forming partnerships on various programmes such as teenage health programmes, and encouraging healthy masculinities and gender equality. In provinces such as GP, meetings held with department of Arts and Culture yielded a partnership to roll out workshops on human rights, the role of men in promoting gender equality and combating gender based violence.

• Meetings were also held with traditional councils and the religious sector. Discussions with these stakeholders focused on early child marriages, forced marriages, problems experienced by women married under the customary law, gender-based violence and discrimination against LGBTI persons

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PEI

Key issues discussed at partnership/ collaboration meetings held included:

Challenges relating to customary marriages, registration of customary marriages and Inheritance; widowhood

Cultural practices like ukhuthwala, ukungenwa and their impact on young girls and women

Role of men’s organizations in relation to the impact of gender-based violence

• The rights of sex workers; Domestic violence and rape; Sexual Harassment

• Issues on reproductive rights and the access to reproductive health• Women’s representation in public and private sphere• Transgenderism and challenges experienced by transgender persons• Religious sector promoting early child marriages• Initiation and initiations schools and current deaths experienced22

Public Education and Information

• For the current financial period legal and outreach clinics are conducted by the PEI department in collaboration with legal unit. As highlighted under legal report 34 interventions relating to this activity were undertaken for the reporting period. PEI concentrated on advocacy during these sessions and engaged on themes relating to women empowerment and women’s human rights. Key issues highlighted related to customary, maintenance problems and witchcraft killings.

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Public Education and Information

Public Education and Information• PEI head office held training workshops with some of the

stakeholders that either engaged with legal and or research on their gender mainstreaming process. The entities include Rand water and Eskom. Head office further honoured and attended engagements by some of its stakeholders such as HURISA, who had a session on the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights where the Special Rapporteur Tlakula was guest speaker. Further supported Genderlinks on its adjudication process for the SADC Gender protocol Summit

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Public Education and Information Community Radio Programme• 16 community education programmes/interviews were held through NCRF

programme. These interviews’ content was based on the theme that the unit was dealing with for the quarter – women empowerment and human rights.

• The focus was on minority languages in particular this quarter. These include isi –Swati; isi-Ndebele; xhi-Tsonga and tshi-Venda

• Radio slots took place on the following radio stations, viz Makhado FM; K Radio; Kangala Community Radio Services and Radio

Bushbuckridge • An education programme was also conducted through SABC Education and

yielded 28 radio programmes. Focus was on vernacular and English medium radio stations which include the following radio stations, viz Thobela FM; Phalaphala FM; Munghana Lonene; Ligwalagwala FM; Ukhozi FM; Umhlobo we Nene FM; Tru FM; Lesedi FM; Motsweding FM, Ikwekwezi FM and Radio 2000

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People reached during reporting period

Province Male Female TotalE. Cape 68 131 199Free State Not provided Not providedGauteng 100 150 250Kwazulu Natal 30 105 135Limpopo 70 182 252Mpumalanga 144 129 273Northern Cape 27 95  122North West 142 100 242Western Cape 193 341 534TOTAL 774 1233 2007

Public Education and Information

Public Education and Information Total readership and listenership during this quarter

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Radio Station Average Day Listenership

Ukhozi FM 3.6 millionUmhlobo Wenene 2.7 millionLesedi 2.1 millionMetro 1.9 million

Motsweding 1. 6 million

Thobela 1. 5 millionRSG 1 millionEast Coast Radio 923 thousand

5FM 888 thousand

Ikwekwezi FM 881 thousand

Jacaranda 879 thousandGagasi 99.5 836 thousand

Ligwalagwala 730 thousand

Munghana Lonene FM 926 thousand

Capricorn FM 711 thousand94.7 671 thousand

Phalaphala Fm 907 thousand

Ikwekwezi Fm 1.8 millionRadio 2000 2.3 million

Public Education and Information Total readership and listenership during this quarter

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Newspaper Title Readership per day Daily Sun 14,600 00 Sunday Times 12,000 00 City Press 6,200 00 Rapport 4,500 00 Sowetan 4,300 00 Illanga 2,400 00 Isoleswe 2,200 00 The Star 1,700 00 Beeld 1,700 00 Daily News 1,500 00 Die Burgher 1, 400 00 The Citizen 13, 000 00 Mail & Guardian 13, 000 00 New Age 13,000 00 The Cape Argus 9 000 00 The Times 1,100 Million

Geographic Areas covered this quarter

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Province District Urban RuralNorth West Ngaka Modiri Molema; Bojanala; Dr.

Kenneth Kaunda; Dr. Ruth Segomotsi-Mompati

Mafikeng, Lehurutshe, Rustenberg, Vryburg Madibogo, Moruleng, Dinokaneng Village, Dinokana Community Hall

Kwazulu Natal Ethekwini Metro;Umgungundlovu; Zululand

Kwandengezi, Pitermaritzburg, Hillcrest Babanango

Mpumalanga Ehlanzeni, Gert Sibande Nelspruit, Emalahleni, Thekwane South, Piet Retief, Ermelo

Lyliedale; Schoemansdal

Gauteng City of Johannesburg Soweto, Johannesburg, Randburg  

Western Cape Cape Town Merople, cape winelands, Eden District, West Coast

Cape Town, Athlone, Khayelitsha Malmesbury, Knysa, Plettenberg Bay, Paarl, Embekweni

Eastern Cape OR Tambo, East London, King Williams Town Qumbo

Limpopo Capricorn, Vhembe, waterberg, Blouberg Polokwane Sekhukhene

Northern Cape Frances Baard, Z.F. Mgcawu Kimberley, Bloemanda, Tswelelang, Upington, Coleberg, Noupoort

Platfontein

Free State Motheo District,Thabo MofutsanyaneDistrict

Bloemfontein, Botshabelo Vrede,Harrismith, Qwa Qwa

 

Provinces• The Provincial offices worked hard and tried to achieve all their targets

which is indicative of strengthened team work within the Provinces. One of the issues that emanated from the Provincial reports is the fact that the legal clinics have been made to be an internally collaborative work between the PEI and Legal department.

• Different Provinces indicated different issues that as provinces they experience. However, the common issues that are predominant across the board are issues of gender based violence, the challenges that are related to widowhood, and the issue of violence against LGBTI community.

• Provinces such as the Western Cape should be commended for being innovative and penetrating the Correctional facilities to sensitise the

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• The issue of early marriages and intergenerational relationships still comes out as some of the challenges that Provinces such as Free State, KZN and Mpumalanga still experience. This as a result is an indication that there is still a need for the commission to lobby the key stakeholders within such Provinces to devise local strategies to mitigate such social ills.

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Provinces

Provincial Reach

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PROVINCES AREAS REACHED BY THE COMMISSIONGAUTENG Tembisa, Atteridgeville, NORTH WEST Madibogo, Moruleng, Mafikeng, Lehurutshe, Rustenburg, Orkney, Vryburg, Dinokana,

Dithakwanweng, Stella, Matloang, Madibogo,FREE STATE Vrede, Harrismith, Thibela, Motheo, NORTHERN CAPE Bloemanda, Tswelelang, Kimberley, Upington, Platfontein, Pixley Ka Seme, ZF Mcgawu, Frances BaardEASTERN CAPE Qumbu, East London, King Williams Town, WESTERN CAPE Oudtshhoorn Prison, Rondebosch, Bellville, Athlone, Malmasbury, Cape Winelands District

Municipality, Jamestown, Phillippi, Knysna Municipality, Paarl, Khayelitsha, Gouda in Witzenberg Local Municipality, Mbekweni, New Rest

KWAZULU NATAL Umthwalume, KwaNgwanase, Uphongolo, Pietermaritzburg, Mpukunyoni, Mkhuze, Babanango, Hillcrest, Clermont, Chatsworth

LIMPOPO Capricorn district at Ga Mamabolo Village, Waterberg district at Ga Mokaba, Lebowakgomo, Ga Mphahlele, Lekutong, Lonsdale, Sekgosese, Tubatse local municipality, Vhembe district, Polokwane

MPUMALANGA Schoemansdal, Witbank, Pienaar, Kanyamazane, Piet Retief, Lillydale in Bushbuckridge, Ermelo, Kwaggafontein,

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3

SUB-STRATEGIES

To monitor state compliance with regional and international conventions, covenants and charters which have been acceded to or ratified by the Republic, relating to the object of the Commission for Gender Equality

1. To conduct annual reviews and audits of state compliance with obligations under the conventions, covenants and charters and to report an a regular basis to Parliament and the Office of the Speaker of Parliament

2. To interact with and report to national, regional and international bodies on state compliance with conventions, covenants and charters acceded to or ratified and to make recommendations for improvements

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Progress on SO 3

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 4 SUB-STRATEGIESTo build an effective, efficient and sustainable institution that will fulfil its constitutional mandate on gender equality

1. To maintain optimal governance and oversight structures and policies between Commissioners and the Secretariat2. To develop a financial management strategy that promotes effective, efficient and economic utilisation of resources as well as accountability3. To develop and maintain an IT infrastructure that supports and promotes the organisational objectives of the CGE4. To develop a comprehensive HR policies, procedures and practices

5. Implement an effective communications strategy and policy that promotes and enhances a positive public image of the CGE

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Progress on SO 4

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The above represents work done for the current reporting period. A lot of ground has been covered for the reporting period when one compares with work that was undertaken for the same period in the last financial year.

ConclusionConclusion

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