WITH Tshwane literally on fire allegedly over ANC mayoral candidate Thoko Didiza, it was business as usual for the national executive committee’s member in Limpopo.
Didiza was honouring her party’s Youth League’s Doek launch on Wednesday night at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
She set aside any questions about Tshwane and said the night belonged to the ANC Youth League and she would not depart from that.
The controversial “blesser” topic was discussed for the better part of the night.
Many young women in green and gold asked their leaders how they planned to curb challenges faced by women who resort to “blessers” as their way out of poverty.
Makgatla Lephale, one of the many young women present at the event, engaged the leaders.
She said that challenges faced by young women must be given complete sensitivity, looking at factors resulting from them.
“When addressing this issue, we should talk about factors that make these young women opt for men with money to survive,” Lephale said.
Didiza urged the women to educate themselves and consider vocational training and farming as their careers, where there are few women.
“We want to create a pool of working people, not housewives,” said Didiza.
She said she would like to see more young women take up agriculture as a way of making sustainable businesses and creating employment for others.
The Tshwane mayoral candidate encouraged the young ANC women in Limpopo to be politically aware so that they could make conscious decisions.
Since Sunday afternoon there have been protests in Tshwane and in surrounding townships.
This was after Didiza was announced as the ANC’s mayoral candidate for the metro.
No fewer than 20 buses have been reduced to ashes, with shops being looted and vandalised.
However, that was not the worry of the night. Rather, the concern was the Limpopo ANC’s young women who filled the hall.
