Advocate Thandi Orleyn is the new President of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa.
The voting booth is the only place where we are all equal: man and woman, a beggar, the unemployed, young, old, and even a billionaire.
Now that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has officially gazetted and proclaimed November 4 as the date for the upcoming local government elections, it is pleasing that women are prepared to be the driving force behind our democracy, having accounted for more than half of all voter registration activity.
After all, of the 26.74 million registered voters, 14 716 879 are women, amounting to 55% of potential votes.
Since getting on the voters roll is a prerequisite to voting and participating, let us remember that getting on the voters roll is a prerequisite to dictating the nature and direction of public policy.
