Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities,
This was to engage on the group's transformation agenda in response to a racially offensive advert placed on its website on
The meeting was attended by representatives of the
In her opening remarks, Minister Nkoana-Mashabane expressed her shock and disappointment at the deeply offensive advert that portrayed black women's hair as inferior to that of white women's hair by using and labelling images of various types of hair along racial lines.
Minister Nkoana-Mashabane went on to add that while the advert irresponsibly reinforced racist tropes of the inferiority of 'black beauty,' it also has a damaging impact on black women who must continue to struggle for their humanity on a daily basis due to multiple layers of structural racism and sexism that still exists in the country.
"This incident has allowed me as the head of the organisation to look deeper within the organisation to see what else can be accelerated, or what else can be done," Ramsunder said.
The focus of the meeting was
"My responsibility is to monitor the implementation of all laws of this country that seeks to redress the imbalances of the past for these sectors and ensure that the public and private sectors complies in order for us a nation to reach that generation equality goal of 50-50 by 2030," the Minister said.
Group Human Resources Director for
In her closing remarks, Director General for
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