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As part of Women’s Month and the centenary of Mama Albertina Sisulu, the Department of Social Development will today launch a women empowerment project at Mawewe Tribal Authority in Mgobodi vllage, Mpumalanga.

Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Bathabile Dlamini, says the department will, for the remainder of the month of August, host a series of dialogues that are aimed at championing women’s issues.

Struggle heroine Albertina Sisulu would have wanted stories of the unnamed women, who marched to the Union Buildings in 1956, told, her daughter-in-law Elinor Sisulu said on Tuesday.

Eligible South Africans have been urged by government to register to vote and update their addresses on the voters’ roll this weekend.