21/08/2025
NEHAWU MPUMALANGA TO HOST WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION AT MKHUHLU CIRCUIT HALL
Wednesday August 20, 2025
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] in Mpumalanga will host a Women’s Day Celebration at Mkhuhlu Circuit Hall on Friday, 22nd August 2025, under the theme “Celebrating Women in the Trade Union Movement and Building Resilient Economies for All”.
This august event forms part of our broader commitment to honour resilience, contribution, and leadership of women within the trade union movement and the broader struggle for social and economic justice in our societies.
NEHAWU acknowledges the crucial roles which women have played and continue playing in building and defending a militant, worker-led trade union movement as well as their contributions towards strengthening and building resilient economies for all. From the frontlines of industrial actions to the negotiations tables, from the shop floor to national platforms, our women have been consistently at the heart of the union’s victories and campaigns.
The union recognises that Women’s Day/Month is not a mere symbolic gesture, but a moment to reflect, engage and recommit ourselves to dismantling patriarchal structures and economic oppression that continue to hinder the full realisation of women’s rights and their freedoms in our society.
The commemoration aims to:
• Honour the legacy and impact of women in the trade union movement.
• Reflect on the challenges which women are confronted with in the workplaces, trade union movement and in the broader society at large.
• Recommit our organization to the advancing of gender transformation and equity within the trade union movement.
• To encourage and foster unity amongst women in building resilient economies for all.
The event will be attended and addressed by women who are currently NEHAWU leaders and members, as well as those former leaders and members of the union who are currently occupying different positions in government and in the broader Mass Democratic Movement. The Alliance formations will also be forming part of this important gathering.
The program is scheduled to take place as follows:
Date: 22 August 2025
Time: 10H00-15H00
Venue: Mkhuhlu Circuit Hall
NEHAWU remains committed in championing the interests and the aspirations of workers, and to deepen the struggle for gender equality across all sectors in our society.
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Issued by NEHAWU Mpumalanga Secretariat
For more information please contact Welcome Mnisi (Provincial Secretary) at 082 455 2897 or email welcome@nehawu.org.za or Gift Maseko (Provincial Deputy Secretary) at 063 685 3461 or email gift@nehawu.org.za
