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Dear JCTR Bulletin Readers: It is important to recognise that to talk about social justice -- the promotion of those structures that enhance the full development of the people -- is to pay attention to all sectors of the community, including institutions and/or structures that seem to promote social injustice. But above all, the discussion of social justice cannot in the present situation of Zambia and Malawi and wider Africa be discussed without reference to women. Any social justice discourse or development intervention that does not take into account the situation of women in our society is incomplete. Historically in the context of Zambia and Malawi and generally Africa, with only a few instances when individual women have yielded power and given some opportunities, women have borne the brunt of social injustice more than men. This injustice has taken expression of various forms and has existed at different levels: national, community and the family. While the colonial establishment is said to have generally disadvantaged the natives of the land (Africans), this establishment tended to perpetuate women’s disempowerment economically by only facilitating or allowing the creation – to a lesser extent for that matter – of opportunities for men only. The new national states that came into place following independence did make some relative radical changes, but these were not enough to place women and men at par in terms of opportunities. Complete letter |
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