10/08/2019
EXPRESZ YOURSELF-Where people connect
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A WAKE UP CALL!.
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Amantombazana's Empowerment
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Thuto Tshwaraganelo organisation(situated in Coligny Tlhabologang between Ventersdorp and Lichtenburg) an organisation that keeps on executing change and empowerment brought another function that was purely about uplifting women in their community.
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August being women's month it was a key engine to finally begin such functions whereby women come together and start creating a space where they can bond,communicate,network,empower and uplift each other. Amantombaza's Empowerment Women's Day Celebration by far is the first ever function to be held in their community that was purely about women,dedicated to women and by women. The most highlighted or brought up issues were gossip among women,the lack of support they have towards each other,negativity,supporting each other according to class,the continues behaviour of bringing each other down and the lack of activeness that women in their community have towards their ideas, job creations and the drive to succeed.
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The motion and atmosphere was one. Women were there not for the sake of just being there but to finally hear the call,to hold each other and to build an unbreakable chain.
We've seen government officials and different individuals outside their community coming to their community with a motive of uplifting people there but on women's day 2019 the atmosphere was totally different from the once we've seen in their community before, it was somewhat a need for women of their community to voice themselves out or up to each other or towards each other woman to woman and not necessarily have someone or people outside their community to come out and say "hey women of Tlhabologang wake up" but they just needed a platform for themselves to literally tell each other "hey let's wake up and start doing things" and Thuto Tshwaraganelo brought that platform and the response was unexpectedly massive. For women in their community to be part of such functions they'd normally go to another place,town or city but this year Thuto Tshwaraganelo said no women of Tlhabologang we are not going anywhere we are going to hold such functions in our community, let's do it at home,let's finally plant a seed of it at home by ourselves for ourselves.
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One of the speakers said something very groundbreaking"Dig the ground than call the government tell them that you did dug there and you need some assistance going forward and not sit there doing nothing complaining and demanding assistant to the government on an idea that you fail to implement yourself".
Amantombazana's Empowerment is
what they truly needed and we hoping that they will be more functions like that in their community. Big up to every single woman that attended,every speaker, every person involved in making the function a success Mapos entertainment,MO BASE and most importantly Thuto Tshwaraganelo organisation for being a wake-up call to its community.
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Written by: Paul Moeti
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Link:
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https://expreszyourself.tumblr.com/post/186908195133/a-wake-up-call-amantombazanas-empowerment