Women's Day only serves to remind of the struggle women still go through

A regular reader took exception at all the women-centred activity of Women's Day and went on a bender declaring:"In SA, black women deliberately misuse the notion of equal rights by challenging black men, in particular, at every aspect of their lives.

"He goes on and on, but then ominously warns:"It may seem sweet today to bash men and undermine them because it is August but it will be sour tomorrow. Our black boys are growing up bitter at being sidelined at the expense of girls."But there can be no bigger indicator of what is really going on at grassroots level than to consider that despite women making up the majority of the population, only two of the country's nine premiers are women.

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