Minister Naledi Pandor slams gender-based violence, accusing men of treating women as property.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Naledi Pandor, has launched the Charlotte Maxeke African Women’s Economic Justice and Rights initiative. Pandor spoke with eNCA's Tumelo Mothotoane. Courtesy ofInternational Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor says it's a deep-rooted problem that some men find it normal to treat women badly.
"This is a social attitude that we need to combat in law, but we also need to combat it as part of transforming the social character of South Africa."I think we cannot ascribe a particular situation such as economic exclusion, as leading to such. "Of course, there is an economic element but the primary fault is with our men and how they behave towards us," Pandor said.
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