03 Jun 2015

Assistant Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Mr Dikgang Makgalemele, has urged women to be bold in everything they do if they are to achieve their goals.

Mr Makgalemele said this during the recent launch of Mosadi Khumo, an organisation aimed at empowering women . He said  in their journey, women were going to meet challenges that needed their boldness and courage to overcome.

He said they should be prepared and not scared to knock on  doors for financial assistance as they tried to tackle issues affecting women. Mr Makgalamele said the government had long concluded to offer financial assistance to women as they were the ones mostly affected by poverty. He added that Mosadi Khumo was an appropriate name that could be used as a long term theme.

“Mosadi Khumo is being launched at the right time when the government is trying by all means to eradicate poverty, diversify the economy, improve food production, create employment and optimise on local resources,” he said.

Therefore, the assistant minister said their organization would go a long way in helping the government encourage and drive economic empowerment initiatives, especially those that were women oriented.

He said one of the objectives of Mosadi Khumo was to mobilise, train and facilitate women to grow their businesses, and to ensure that they invested in the right direction by creating jobs and alleviating poverty.

He said what was interesting with the association was its determination to save and to grow wealth, noting that their motive was most admirable and well aligned with the government’s quest to improve competitiveness of both local and global goods and services.

The founder and leader of the association Ms Bookie Kethusegile said a woman was of great importance to society, and that today, the family set up had transformed in many aspects forcing women to actively take part in the development of the country.

She explained that women could also work successfully together and achieve something rather than dwelling on the myth that women had the ‘pull her down syndrome.’

She said women took care of their children, husbands and almost everyone in the family so they knew what was happening in and around them.

Ms Kethusegile said the main objective of Mosadi Khumo was to address the gaps that had continued to prevail despite the many commendable efforts of those who had worked for many years.

She also said Mosadi Khumo’s mandate was to properly harness and leverage woman’s power to transform and impact society at large by utilising the value chain system model as well as to take deliberate actions to invest for and to assist women invest and grow their businesses, incomes and wealth, creating jobs and alleviating poverty in the process. ENDS