{"id":655,"date":"2024-08-10T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=655"},"modified":"2024-08-10T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T18:40:08","slug":"government-signs-anti-gender-based-violence-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Government signs anti &#8211; gender based violence pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pofadder<\/p>\n<p>The President, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Northern Cape Premier Dr. Zamani Saul (pictured), Deputy Ministers, Members of the Executive Council and civil society sign an Anti-Gender Based violence pledge during the National Women\u2019s Day Commemoration at the Denis Nel Stadium in Pofadder, Northern Cape Province.<\/p>\n<p>This year also marks 70 years of the Women\u2019s Charter. The 1954 Women\u2019s Charter elevated women\u2019s rights to a new level of prominence. It emphasised the crucial need to prioritise women\u2019s liberation alongside the struggle for freedom, ensuring that women would not remain perpetually oppressed even after the achievement of democracy. It called for fundamental rights such as equal pay for equal work, maternity leave, and the right to participate in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pofadder The President, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Northern Cape Premier Dr. Zamani Saul (pictured), Deputy Ministers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}